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May 2019 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in May 2019, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in May 2019

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

  1. 1st May 2019Which philosopher is associated with popularising the argument against speciesism?
  2. 2nd May 2019According to Exodus 3:2, what does Moses see that makes him turn aside to look?
  3. 3rd May 2019Which German theologian introduced the concept of 'the numinous' in his 1917 book The Idea of the Holy?
  4. 4th May 2019Which type of evil does the free will defence struggle most to explain?
  5. 5th May 2019Which just war criterion is concerned with civilians not being deliberately targeted in a war?
  6. 6th May 2019Name one reason, other than justice, why religious believers might seek peace.
  7. 7th May 2019According to a Humanist, outcomes-based view of punishment, what should justify a punishment?
  8. 8th May 2019Complete the quotation: 'what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and ______' (Micah 6:8).
  9. 9th May 2019State one difference between prejudice and discrimination.
  10. 10th May 2019Give one method Martin Luther King used to campaign for civil rights.
  11. 11th May 2019Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  12. 12th May 2019On which Jewish festival, fifty days after Passover, does Acts 2 record the Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples?
  13. 13th May 2019Name the movement that describes informal, often community-based forms of church, such as 'messy church', designed to reach people outside traditional Sunday services.
  14. 14th May 2019State one thing Christians traditionally do during Lent.
  15. 15th May 2019According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  16. 16th May 2019What role, according to Qur'an 2:30, does Allah tell the angels he is placing Adam on earth to fulfil?
  17. 17th May 2019What are jinn believed to be created from, in contrast to angels?
  18. 18th May 2019Give the term used for these first four Sunni caliphs, meaning 'rightly guided'.
  19. 19th May 2019State one practical effect of many Shia Muslims combining prayers into three periods.
  20. 20th May 2019Which of the two forms of jihad applies to every Muslim, every day, without exception?
  21. 21st May 2019Name the Gospel in which Jesus's teaching on lust and adultery 'in the heart' is found.
  22. 22nd May 2019Give one branch of Judaism that ordains women as rabbis.
  23. 23rd May 2019What is purgatory, according to Catholic teaching?
  24. 24th May 2019Which denomination of Christianity most commonly teaches belief in purgatory?
  25. 25th May 2019Give the Arabic term for the belief that life is a trust from Allah that must be protected.
  26. 26th May 2019In which of his works did Aquinas set out the Five Ways?
  27. 27th May 2019State one reason a faith school might reinforce belief in God more than a non-faith school.
  28. 28th May 2019What is the key difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person?
  29. 29th May 2019State one just war criterion, other than discrimination, that terrorism typically fails to meet.
  30. 30th May 2019Give one type of crime that involves taking someone else's property without permission.
  31. 31st May 2019Give one reason why a community sentence might cause less suffering to an offender's family than a prison sentence.