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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Is there a difference in the way Confirmation is done by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church?
(a) No.
(b) Most often no.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Yes.

2. What are free will and sentience, or rationality?
(a) Two gifts bestowed by God.
(b) Two aspects of humanity.
(c) Two qualities that most strongly indicate the divine within humanity.
(d) Two contrasting ideas.

3. Properly aligned from within, the individual can do what?
(a) Work to improve the earth.
(b) Work to improve oneself.
(c) Work to improve conditions for all.
(d) Work to improve the lives of others.

4. What is healthy self-love?
(a) Not selfish nor self-abusive.
(b) Loving others to the extreme.
(c) Hurting oneself for the sake of others.
(d) Caring only about oneself.

5. What is the purpose of the other kind of confession?
(a) To confess one's faith in God and Jesus.
(b) Giving thanks and praise.
(c) To confess one's wrongdoings.
(d) Remembering the Saints.

6. When is it viewed as perfectly acceptable to forgo marriage?
(a) When it is in one's best interest to not marry.
(b) When one is not healthy.
(c) When it is done to facilitate the achievement of other honorable ends.
(d) When one does not want to marry.

7. What is the emphasis regarding Holy Orders and Matrimony?
(a) Service to oneself for the sake of others.
(b) Service to another or to others and to the salvation of the other.
(c) Service to oneself for the sake of oneself.
(d) Service to another and the salvation of oneself.

8. The Catechism defines the source of strife within marriages as being what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Misunderstanding.
(c) Sin.
(d) Selfishness.

9. What kind of bond is the matrimonial bond in Catholicism?
(a) A required bond of those who do not become priests.
(b) An order indicative of a few duties.
(c) An ecclesiastical order indicative of numerous duties towards the other members.
(d) A permanent bond in life and death.

10. 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) Neighborly love.
(b) Love for God.
(c) Love for oneself.
(d) Love of family.

11. What kinds of killing are all wrong?
(a) Homicide.
(b) Suicide, abortion and homicide.
(c) Suicide and homicide.
(d) Abortion and homicide.

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

13. To what is this last section devoted entirely?
(a) The Nicene Creed.
(b) The Eucharist.
(c) The Apostles' Creed.
(d) The Lord's Prayer.

14. What is repentance?
(a) Complete forgiveness for sins.
(b) An apology.
(c) Sinless behavior.
(d) To work at correcting or improving behavior in order to achieve a higher standard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is required when one prays?

2. According to the Catechism, for whom is this ordination open?

3. As what is Confirmation also known?

4. Do the sacraments of initiation into the Catholic religion intentionally create conditions ideal for any particular individual to serve others in certain ways with a focus on the spiritual aspect of relating?

5. Whatever one does to another or to oneself, one has also done to whom?

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