Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
April 2005 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in April 2005, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in April 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2005What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
- 2nd April 2005What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
- 3rd April 2005Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
- 4th April 2005Give one example of indirect discrimination.
- 5th April 2005State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
- 6th April 2005Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 7th April 2005Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
- 8th April 2005State one feature of worship in a house church.
- 9th April 2005Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
- 10th April 2005According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 11th April 2005Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
- 12th April 2005Give one Arabic term for angels.
- 13th April 2005Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
- 14th April 2005Which month does Ashura fall in?
- 15th April 2005Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
- 16th April 2005Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
- 17th April 2005According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
- 18th April 2005Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
- 19th April 2005According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
- 20th April 2005Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
- 21st April 2005Which 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?
- 22nd April 2005Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
- 23rd April 2005Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
- 24th April 2005Name 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.
- 25th April 2005State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
- 26th April 2005Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
- 27th April 2005Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
- 28th April 2005Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
- 29th April 2005Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 30th April 2005Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?