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June 2001 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in June 2001, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in June 2001

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

  1. 1st June 2001State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
  2. 2nd June 2001Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  3. 3rd June 2001Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
  4. 4th June 2001State one feature of worship in a house church.
  5. 5th June 2001Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
  6. 6th June 2001According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  7. 7th June 2001Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
  8. 8th June 2001Give one Arabic term for angels.
  9. 9th June 2001Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
  10. 10th June 2001Which month does Ashura fall in?
  11. 11th June 2001Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
  12. 12th June 2001Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
  13. 13th June 2001According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
  14. 14th June 2001Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
  15. 15th June 2001According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
  16. 16th June 2001Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
  17. 17th June 2001Which 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?
  18. 18th June 2001Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
  19. 19th June 2001Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
  20. 20th June 2001Name 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.
  21. 21st June 2001State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
  22. 22nd June 2001Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
  23. 23rd June 2001Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
  24. 24th June 2001Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
  25. 25th June 2001Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  26. 26th June 2001Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
  27. 27th June 2001What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
  28. 28th June 2001Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
  29. 29th June 2001According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
  30. 30th June 2001What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?