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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What follows Confession?
(a) A sinless life.
(b) Reconciliation.
(c) Embarrassment.
(d) Confusion.

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

3. The first article here is about what?
(a) The life of God.
(b) The love of God.
(c) The name of God.
(d) The image of God.

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

5. What does a life of brothers and sisters trigger?
(a) Safety.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Love.
(d) Honesty.

6. In this section what does the Catholic Church set forth?
(a) A number of Catholic Principles.
(b) A number of Catholic Commandments.
(c) A number of Catholic rules.
(d) A number of Catholic Creeds.

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

8. What is beatitude?
(a) Being able to see opportunities and advantages within difficulties.
(b) The act of being beautiful in one's attitude.
(c) Being able to see the beauty in all things.
(d) The mental state of the Saints and Angels.

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

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

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

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

13. The main body of the Lord's Prayer is laid out as what?
(a) The Five Petitions.
(b) The Six Petitions.
(c) The Eight Petitions.
(d) The Seven Petitions.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is oil used during Confirmation?

2. How are options for the earthly life divided?

3. Why is the woman designated as man's helpmeet?

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

5. Does the individual have the choice to decide whether to do good or evil?

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