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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 understands how others who sin feel.
(b) The person might get spiritually dirty.
(c) The person is given a chance to talk to God.
(d) The person sets a good example for others.

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

3. 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 an act that a believer can perform to be drawn closer to God.
(d) It provides each individual with proof that angels do exist.

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

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

6. To what does the third commandment pertain?
(a) Loving thy neighbor as thyself.
(b) Obeying thy father and mother.
(c) Coveting.
(d) Keeping the Sabbath.

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

8. What is the special role and function of this prayer?
(a) As a part of special services.
(b) As part of holiday celebrations.
(c) As a prayer that is said at mealtime.
(d) As part of both the baptismal and confirmation rites.

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

10. Whatever one does to another or to oneself, one has also done to whom?
(a) Other gods.
(b) All.
(c) Jesus the Christ.
(d) The earth.

11. What is the notion of conversion of heart?
(a) For the individual to care for others.
(b) For gaining the ability to forgive.
(c) For the individual to attune himself or herself to God from the conscience and consciousness and with heart.
(d) For the individual to convert to Christianity through prayer.

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

13. 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) Remembering the Saints.
(d) To confess one's wrongdoings.

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

15. What is the one most well-known form of confession?
(a) One for wrongdoings.
(b) Thanking God for all He has done.
(c) In remembrance for the deceased.
(d) Confessing one's faith in God and Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What follows Confession?

2. What is Christian prayer?

3. What is concupiscence?

4. Such a choice to not marry would preclude what?

5. What is social justice?

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