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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the sacraments?
(a) To please God.
(b) To bring God to the people.
(c) To assist the People of God into perceiving their relationship to God more clearly.
(d) To keep people from committing acts of sin.

2. Why are the activities of the liturgy a highpoint?
(a) It encourages others to support the Church.
(b) It engages the People in transformation in acts of divinely guided and inspired love of one another.
(c) It benefits the community at large.
(d) It gives the community a positive sense about the Church.

3. How does baptism unite the People of God?
(a) More intimately with Jesus the Christ and His Heavenly Father.
(b) By changing the way they think and act.
(c) More intimately with one another.
(d) By giving them a purpose.

4. The Church is meant to support what transformation of the world on Earth?
(a) Into a peaceful place.
(b) Into a place of harmony and love for all.
(c) Into a paradise for all.
(d) Into the Kingdom of God in Heaven and upon the Earth.

5. Who is the one actually tending the flock?
(a) The Pope.
(b) The people.
(c) The divine shepherd.
(d) The Apostles.

6. According to the Catholic Church the reason for what the Jews are doing is what?
(a) A desire for the return of the Messiah.
(b) A lack of trust in Jesus.
(c) A lack of knowledge or understanding of Lord Jesus.
(d) A knowledge Christians do not have.

7. How does Man's Response to God begin?
(a) God seeks out friendship with people through daily activities.
(b) God comes to everyone at birth.
(c) People seek out friendship with God through daily activities.
(d) People and God meet during daily activities.

8. Is the hell mentioned in the creed meant to be a location, according to the Catholic Church?
(a) It is not known what is meant by this.
(b) Yes.
(c) Hell is not capitalized as a location in the Catechism.
(d) Possibly.

9. How many sacraments are in the Catholic Church?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Ten.
(d) Seven.

10. Who invoked the Savior God?
(a) The priest's assistants.
(b) The high priests.
(c) God.
(d) The people.

11. The Church's official position on the Muslims is that the latter are recognized as what?
(a) Worshipers of the same God.
(b) Devil worshipers.
(c) Heathens.
(d) Christians.

12. During what is it decided that there is a need to generate an updated version of the catechism?
(a) The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council.
(b) The First Vatican Ecumenical Council.
(c) The Fourth Vatican Ecumenical Council.
(d) The Third Vatican Ecumenical Council.

13. What does the Hebrew spelling of YHWH when properly translated actually say?
(a) I AM WHO I AM.
(b) IT WAS WHAT IT WAS.
(c) YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE.
(d) IT IS WHAT IT IS.

14. Of what was Jesus the cornerstone?
(a) A barn.
(b) A tomb.
(c) A cottage.
(d) A building.

15. How is this version of the Catechism unlike versions centuries ago?
(a) It exhorts the members of the religion to read and study the Scriptures for themselves in addition to Church attendance.
(b) It gives more equality for members of the Church.
(c) It it more liberal.
(d) It requires less of members of the Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What might liturgy be?

2. What do religious teachers continue?

3. How can others be brought into belief?

4. What sacraments pertain most directly to Jesus, the Church and the worshiper of God?

5. The Catechism offers _____________ means by which to help understand the real literal significance of what is written.

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