Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
October 2009 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in October 2009, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in October 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2009On which Jewish festival, fifty days after Passover, does Acts 2 record the Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples?
- 2nd October 2009Name the movement that describes informal, often community-based forms of church, such as 'messy church', designed to reach people outside traditional Sunday services.
- 3rd October 2009State one thing Christians traditionally do during Lent.
- 4th October 2009According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 5th October 2009What role, according to Qur'an 2:30, does Allah tell the angels he is placing Adam on earth to fulfil?
- 6th October 2009What are jinn believed to be created from, in contrast to angels?
- 7th October 2009Give the term used for these first four Sunni caliphs, meaning 'rightly guided'.
- 8th October 2009State one practical effect of many Shia Muslims combining prayers into three periods.
- 9th October 2009Which of the two forms of jihad applies to every Muslim, every day, without exception?
- 10th October 2009Name the Gospel in which Jesus's teaching on lust and adultery 'in the heart' is found.
- 11th October 2009Give one branch of Judaism that ordains women as rabbis.
- 12th October 2009What is purgatory, according to Catholic teaching?
- 13th October 2009Which denomination of Christianity most commonly teaches belief in purgatory?
- 14th October 2009Give the Arabic term for the belief that life is a trust from Allah that must be protected.
- 15th October 2009In which of his works did Aquinas set out the Five Ways?
- 16th October 2009State one reason a faith school might reinforce belief in God more than a non-faith school.
- 17th October 2009What is the key difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person?
- 18th October 2009State one just war criterion, other than discrimination, that terrorism typically fails to meet.
- 19th October 2009Give one type of crime that involves taking someone else's property without permission.
- 20th October 2009Give one reason why a community sentence might cause less suffering to an offender's family than a prison sentence.
- 21st October 2009Give one example of an absolute right that can never lawfully be restricted.
- 22nd October 2009State one non-financial cost of poverty that religious charities often highlight.
- 23rd October 2009Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 24th October 2009Give one title the New Testament gives to Jesus that describes his role in achieving salvation.
- 25th October 2009What wrongly do Job's friends assume is the cause of his suffering?
- 26th October 2009State who usually leads a Confirmation service in the Anglican Church.
- 27th October 2009According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
- 28th October 2009Give one reason minor signs are described as 'minor' rather than 'major'.
- 29th October 2009What title is traditionally given to Abu Bakr, partly because of his response to the Night Journey?
- 30th October 2009Give the Arabic term for a miracle Allah grants a prophet as a sign of their message.
- 31st October 2009Name the three conditions of istita'ah (ability) that make Hajj obligatory.