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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can one who is baptized still benefit from renewal and refreshment via ritual purification and confession?
(a) The person might get spiritually dirty.
(b) The person understands how others who sin feel.
(c) The person sets a good example for others.
(d) The person is given a chance to talk to God.

2. How can concupiscence be seen most positively?
(a) It provides each individual with the strength to live a sinless life.
(b) 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.
(c) It provides each individual with proof that angels do exist.
(d) It provides an act that a believer can perform to be drawn closer to God.

3. Why is the cultivation of superior moral character by practicing precepts often still of great benefit to the baptized?
(a) The purification does not significantly alter an individual's nature or disposition.
(b) The baptized must help all others.
(c) The purification of baptism lasts forever.
(d) Those who are baptized are perfect and sinless.

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

5. Is it suggested that there is meaningfulness behind repetition?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Probably not.
(d) Maybe.

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

7. Is Baptism open to people of any religion?
(a) Yes, anyone and everyone.
(b) Yes, those who are willing to be initiated by it.
(c) No, only Christians.
(d) No, only Catholics.

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

9. The power of water to purify and to cleanse was also advanced by what?
(a) The rainfalll that takes place around the world.
(b) The amount of water found in the oceans.
(c) The falling of manna from the sky.
(d) The flood and the time of Noah.

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

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

12. What is the sixth commandment?
(a) The prohibition against adultery.
(b) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
(c) Thou shalt not steal.
(d) Thou shalt not covet.

13. Such a choice to not marry would preclude what?
(a) Dating.
(b) Adopting children.
(c) Becoming engaged.
(d) Having sexual relations.

14. What is required when one prays?
(a) Darkness.
(b) Focus.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Belief.

15. What does the proper rearing of offspring cultivate in a couple?
(a) The need to see themselves reproduced in a new generation.
(b) The capacity to love unselfishly and also to find and set reasonable boundaries.
(c) The desire to continue the human race.
(d) The capacity to love others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Rite of Confession designed to do?

2. According to the Catechism, the word "heart" comes up in relation to the source of emotion how many times with some respect to prayer?

3. What is the special role and function of this prayer?

4. How can people purify the physical realm?

5. How are options for the earthly life divided?

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