Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
February 1997 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1997State the approximate length, in days, of one Islamic (lunar) calendar year.
- 2nd February 1997Define the cervical mucus (Billings) method of family planning.
- 3rd February 1997Give one way a nuclear family structure might make it simpler to plan family finances.
- 4th February 1997According to Qur'an 6:141, what should Muslims avoid when eating?
- 5th February 1997What name is given to the deliberate ending of a person's life to relieve their suffering?
- 6th February 1997Name the 18th century Scottish philosopher who criticised the design argument in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
- 7th February 1997In which section of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding does Hume set out his argument against believing miracles?
- 8th February 1997Give one piece of evidence, other than fossils, used to support Darwin's theory of evolution.
- 9th February 1997Give one reason a victim of conflict might struggle to forgive, even if their religion teaches forgiveness.
- 10th February 1997State one duty of Zakah that is relevant to caring for the victims of war.
- 11th February 1997In restorative justice, what name is given to a meeting where the offender, the victim and community representatives discuss the harm caused and how to repair it?
- 12th February 1997State one reason why a wrongful execution is considered worse than a wrongful prison sentence.
- 13th February 1997Complete the quotation: 'Do not defraud or rob your neighbour. Do not hold back ______' (Leviticus 19:13).
- 14th February 1997Name the specific percentage rate at which Zakah is normally calculated.
- 15th February 1997Give the name for the Christian interpretation of Genesis 1 which reads each 'day' as a long period of time rather than a literal 24-hour day.
- 16th February 1997At which Church council, in 431 AD, was the title Theotokos formally affirmed for Mary?
- 17th February 1997In which Gospel do the disciples ask Jesus, 'Lord, teach us to pray'?
- 18th February 1997State what is meant by contemplative prayer.
- 19th February 1997What is another common name for believers' baptism, reflecting that it requires personal belief first?
- 20th February 1997Name the two angels believed to question the deceased in the grave.
- 21st February 1997Which chapter (surah) of the Qur'an contains the verse describing Allah as 'the Creator, the Inventor, the Fashioner'?
- 22nd February 1997Approximately how many years passed between the first and last revelations of the Qur'an to Muhammad?
- 23rd February 1997Give one reason Muslims are encouraged to seek Laylat al-Qadr across several nights rather than on one confirmed date.
- 24th February 1997In which month of the Islamic calendar does Hajj take place?
- 25th February 1997State one way media or celebrity culture might reduce the stigma attached to sex before marriage.
- 26th February 1997What is meant by adoption?
- 27th February 1997Give one reason the Big Bang theory is described as a scientific theory rather than a religious belief.
- 28th February 1997Which psalm is often used to argue that God is involved in forming a person before birth?