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November 2017 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in November 2017, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in November 2017

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

  1. 1st November 2017Give one term used for the mosque in Jerusalem associated with the Isra.
  2. 2nd November 2017Name the prophet believed to have been given the ability to understand the speech of birds and animals.
  3. 3rd November 2017Give one area of genuine scholarly disagreement about who is exempt from Hajj or umrah.
  4. 4th November 2017Roughly which direction does the qiblah point to from the UK?
  5. 5th November 2017State whether sadaqah is compulsory or voluntary for Muslims.
  6. 6th November 2017What is the legal document that finally ends a marriage in England and Wales, since the 2022 reforms?
  7. 7th November 2017Name the person who typically leads a Christian wedding service and gives a sermon or address.
  8. 8th November 2017Give one piece of scientific evidence, other than the fossil record, that is used to support the theory of evolution.
  9. 9th November 2017State one difference between the idea of dominion and the idea of stewardship.
  10. 10th November 2017What does Jacob see in his dream, according to Genesis 28:12?
  11. 11th November 2017What process does suffering enable, according to the Irenaean theodicy?
  12. 12th November 2017State what is meant by retaliation.
  13. 13th November 2017In the Sermon on the Mount, what does Jesus tell his followers to do instead of retaliating against an attacker?
  14. 14th November 2017Name a Christian community in Northern Ireland known for its peace and reconciliation work.
  15. 15th November 2017Who supervises offenders serving community sentences in England and Wales?
  16. 16th November 2017Name one offence that can be treated as hudud in classical Islamic law.
  17. 17th November 2017Give one everyday example, other than worship at a church or mosque, of how a person might exercise religious freedom.
  18. 18th November 2017In which year did the Human Rights Act 1998 come into force in the UK, as opposed to the year it was passed?
  19. 19th November 2017Give one modern Christian denomination that is part of Western Christianity and so normally includes the Filioque clause in its version of the Nicene Creed.
  20. 20th November 2017According to Hebrews 9:27, what are people destined to do once, followed by judgement?
  21. 21st November 2017Name a site of Christian pilgrimage outside Britain associated with claims of physical healing.
  22. 22nd November 2017According to the letter of James, why is faith without action described as 'dead'?
  23. 23rd November 2017How many roots make up the Shi'a summary of faith?
  24. 24th November 2017Name one prophet, other than Muhammad, described as a Rasul because he was given a scripture.
  25. 25th November 2017Which chapter (surah) of the Qur'an teaches that Allah 'has already set a measure for all things'?
  26. 26th November 2017What is believed to have happened to the Twelfth Imam?
  27. 27th November 2017True or false: the Shahadah is recited only once, at the moment a person converts to Islam.
  28. 28th November 2017In which Islamic month does Ashura occur?
  29. 29th November 2017Give one condition some Muslims place on the use of contraception, even though it is generally permitted.
  30. 30th November 2017What is the Islamic term for the duty to maintain ties of kinship with relatives?