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March 2007 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in March 2007, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in March 2007

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

  1. 1st March 2007In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
  2. 2nd March 2007According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
  3. 3rd March 2007Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
  4. 4th March 2007What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
  5. 5th March 2007What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
  6. 6th March 2007Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
  7. 7th March 2007Give one example of indirect discrimination.
  8. 8th March 2007State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
  9. 9th March 2007Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  10. 10th March 2007Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
  11. 11th March 2007State one feature of worship in a house church.
  12. 12th March 2007Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
  13. 13th March 2007According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  14. 14th March 2007Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
  15. 15th March 2007Give one Arabic term for angels.
  16. 16th March 2007Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
  17. 17th March 2007Which month does Ashura fall in?
  18. 18th March 2007Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
  19. 19th March 2007Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
  20. 20th March 2007According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
  21. 21st March 2007Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
  22. 22nd March 2007According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
  23. 23rd March 2007Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
  24. 24th March 2007Which 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?
  25. 25th March 2007Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
  26. 26th March 2007Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
  27. 27th March 2007Name 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.
  28. 28th March 2007State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
  29. 29th March 2007Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
  30. 30th March 2007Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
  31. 31st March 2007Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.