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August 2013 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in August 2013, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in August 2013

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 2013Complete the quotation: 'what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and ______' (Micah 6:8).
  2. 2nd August 2013State one difference between prejudice and discrimination.
  3. 3rd August 2013Give one method Martin Luther King used to campaign for civil rights.
  4. 4th August 2013Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  5. 5th August 2013On which Jewish festival, fifty days after Passover, does Acts 2 record the Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples?
  6. 6th August 2013Name the movement that describes informal, often community-based forms of church, such as 'messy church', designed to reach people outside traditional Sunday services.
  7. 7th August 2013State one thing Christians traditionally do during Lent.
  8. 8th August 2013According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  9. 9th August 2013What role, according to Qur'an 2:30, does Allah tell the angels he is placing Adam on earth to fulfil?
  10. 10th August 2013What are jinn believed to be created from, in contrast to angels?
  11. 11th August 2013Give the term used for these first four Sunni caliphs, meaning 'rightly guided'.
  12. 12th August 2013State one practical effect of many Shia Muslims combining prayers into three periods.
  13. 13th August 2013Which of the two forms of jihad applies to every Muslim, every day, without exception?
  14. 14th August 2013Name the Gospel in which Jesus's teaching on lust and adultery 'in the heart' is found.
  15. 15th August 2013Give one branch of Judaism that ordains women as rabbis.
  16. 16th August 2013What is purgatory, according to Catholic teaching?
  17. 17th August 2013Which denomination of Christianity most commonly teaches belief in purgatory?
  18. 18th August 2013Give the Arabic term for the belief that life is a trust from Allah that must be protected.
  19. 19th August 2013In which of his works did Aquinas set out the Five Ways?
  20. 20th August 2013State one reason a faith school might reinforce belief in God more than a non-faith school.
  21. 21st August 2013What is the key difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person?
  22. 22nd August 2013State one just war criterion, other than discrimination, that terrorism typically fails to meet.
  23. 23rd August 2013Give one type of crime that involves taking someone else's property without permission.
  24. 24th August 2013Give one reason why a community sentence might cause less suffering to an offender's family than a prison sentence.
  25. 25th August 2013Give one example of an absolute right that can never lawfully be restricted.
  26. 26th August 2013State one non-financial cost of poverty that religious charities often highlight.
  27. 27th August 2013Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  28. 28th August 2013Give one title the New Testament gives to Jesus that describes his role in achieving salvation.
  29. 29th August 2013What wrongly do Job's friends assume is the cause of his suffering?
  30. 30th August 2013State who usually leads a Confirmation service in the Anglican Church.
  31. 31st August 2013According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?