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August 1997 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every sheet in August 1997

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st August 1997Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
  2. 2nd August 1997According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  3. 3rd August 1997Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
  4. 4th August 1997Give one Arabic term for angels.
  5. 5th August 1997Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
  6. 6th August 1997Which month does Ashura fall in?
  7. 7th August 1997Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
  8. 8th August 1997Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
  9. 9th August 1997According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
  10. 10th August 1997Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
  11. 11th August 1997According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
  12. 12th August 1997Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
  13. 13th August 1997Which two philosophers are most associated with the objection that the universe as a whole may not need a cause, even though things within it do?
  14. 14th August 1997Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
  15. 15th August 1997Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
  16. 16th August 1997Name the idea, based on a well-known hadith, used to show that the internal struggle against one's own faults is considered greater than armed struggle.
  17. 17th August 1997State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
  18. 18th August 1997Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
  19. 19th August 1997Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
  20. 20th August 1997Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
  21. 21st August 1997Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  22. 22nd August 1997Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
  23. 23rd August 1997What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
  24. 24th August 1997Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
  25. 25th August 1997According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
  26. 26th August 1997What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
  27. 27th August 1997In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
  28. 28th August 1997State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
  29. 29th August 1997What is umrah?
  30. 30th August 1997What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
  31. 31st August 1997Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.