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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the sources and types of law briefly explained?
(a) There is God as the source of eternal law, and as the creator of natural laws and revealed law.
(b) There is God as the source of all laws.
(c) There is the law of man.
(d) There is God's law and the law of the land.

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

4. How are options for the earthly life divided?
(a) Into happiness and unhappiness.
(b) Into healthy and unhealthy.
(c) Into life and salvation or destruction.
(d) Into love and hate.

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

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

7. What do these sacraments make someone, regarding the Church?
(a) A nuisance.
(b) A functional part of the Church.
(c) An obedient servant.
(d) A leader of a church.

8. Why is oil used during Confirmation?
(a) It is easy to come by.
(b) It is luxurious and functional.
(c) It is preferred by those being confirmed.
(d) It has a nice smell.

9. The Church reminds readers during the Lord's Prayer of Jesus' teaching that everyone can be and must be what?
(a) Perfect.
(b) Kind.
(c) Patient.
(d) Loving.

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

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

12. As what is Confirmation also known?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Chrismation.
(c) Catechism.
(d) Christendom.

13. What is parrhesia?
(a) To speak calmly.
(b) To speak everything.
(c) To love unconditionally.
(d) To love all.

14. What is the fourth commandment?
(a) Obey thy father and they mother.
(b) Thou shalt not kill.
(c) Thou shalt not commit adultery.
(d) Love thy neighbor as thyself.

15. About what is the third article?
(a) Freedom and responsibility.
(b) Love and glory.
(c) Freedom and power.
(d) Free will and love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Those born within the Catholic faith are most likely to have a Confirmation rite when they are _____________.

2. How does Catholic ordination enable the minister to be?

3. What kinds of killing are all wrong?

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

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

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