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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term used in the context of specific requests for love and dedication on the levels of mind and heart and through action?
(a) Courage.
(b) Love.
(c) Peace.
(d) Hope.

2. What does the Catholic Church say about groups that contribute to vice?
(a) They are to be dissolved through repentance of the participants.
(b) They are to be prayed for.
(c) They should be sent to hell.
(d) They are to be dissolved through force.

3. What virtue is an apt expression of how the divine person or persons are able to help to manifest circumstances within which the virtues can grow and the vices can be cut down, outgrown or otherwise abandoned?
(a) Love of family.
(b) Neighborly love.
(c) Love for God.
(d) Love for oneself.

4. What is the purpose of the Holy Orders?
(a) To make sure the clergy are doing what is expected of them.
(b) To keep order in a church.
(c) To incorporate Christians into service to the Church.
(d) To integrate a person within the Church in a new way.

5. What is a powerful and special device that provides a means of connection?
(a) A prayer.
(b) A name.
(c) A compliment.
(d) A request.

6. According to the Catechism, for whom is this ordination open?
(a) Only women.
(b) Children.
(c) Men and women.
(d) Only men.

7. Why should one not kill?
(a) Only God can kill.
(b) Life is in short supply.
(c) Life is both sacred and of great value.
(d) Satan is the one killer.

8. Why is the woman designated as man's helpmeet?
(a) She follows in the role of women expected by God.
(b) She signifies the role of Eve.
(c) She follows in the role of all women in the Bible.
(d) She signifies God's direct assistance in the man's care.

9. Why is the greatest moral virtue needed in those who wield public authority?
(a) They care for all.
(b) They affect the decisions made by others.
(c) They are well-known by the public.
(d) They enforce God's law.

10. What does confession to a priest also do?
(a) It encourages people to not sin.
(b) It forces one to confess his or her sins to God.
(c) It forces an intimate relationship between people and the priest.
(d) It keeps them close to the Church

11. Why must confession of wrongdoings for Catholics include speaking to a priest?
(a) It gives insight into the lives of Christians.
(b) It gives the priest something to do.
(c) Human nature is such that people feel better when they tell someone else of their struggles.
(d) It allows the Church to know what issues her parishioners deal with.

12. How can concupiscence be seen most positively?
(a) It provides an act that a believer can perform to be drawn closer to God.
(b) It provides each individual with the strength to live a sinless life.
(c) It provides each particular individual with a unique set of challenges so that life need not be too boring or lazy with respect to personal development and intimacy with God.
(d) It provides each individual with proof that angels do exist.

13. What is a quality or attitude that is helpful when praying?
(a) Openness.
(b) Calm.
(c) Humility.
(d) Happiness.

14. Does the individual have the choice to decide whether to do good or evil?
(a) Often.
(b) Maybe.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

15. How does this chapter begin?
(a) By discussing the negative aspects of socialization.
(b) By affirming the social nature of humanity.
(c) By discussing whether humans need to socialize.
(d) By naming Saints who did not require socialization.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is this last section devoted entirely?

2. Is it suggested that there is meaningfulness behind repetition?

3. What is healthy self-love?

4. What are the different Holy Orders?

5. What does a life of brothers and sisters trigger?

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