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Who was the first king to be anointed in Israel?

  • Moses
  • David
  • Saul (correct)
  • Solomon

What is the term for the belief in many Gods?

  • Monotheism
  • Covenant
  • Polytheism (correct)
  • Antheanism

Who brought the Arc of the Covenant to the capital of Israel?

  • Solomon
  • David (correct)
  • Moses
  • Saul

What is the term for a binding promise between God and humankind?

<p>Covenant (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is the brother of Moses?

<p>Aaron (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for attributing human qualities to God?

<p>Antheanism (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which Gospel is believed to have been written first?

<p>Matthew (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the first military target of the Israelites in Canaan?

<p>Jericho (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is the influential theologian known for his five proofs of God's existence?

<p>Saint Thomas Aquinas (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the sacred divine name God told Moses?

<p>YAHWEH (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the mother of Jesus?

<p>Mary (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the sign of the covenant between God, Abraham, and his descendants?

<p>Circumcision (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of Abraham's first son?

<p>Ishmael (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What summarizes the law established in the Sinai covenant?

<p>Ten Commandments (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the prophet that anointed Elisha?

<p>Elijah (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the Greek word which means proclamation or preaching?

<p>Kerygma (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the Hebrew word for poor and marginalized people?

<p>Anawim (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a prophet?

<p>Someone to speak on behalf of another (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How many signs are mentioned in the Gospel of John?

<p>7 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the prophet who predicted the birth of Jesus?

<p>Isaiah (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of Abraham's nephew?

<p>Lot (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the mother of Ishmael?

<p>Hagar (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the sacred divine name given to Moses?

<p>Yahweh (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What summarizes the law established in the Sinai covenant?

<p>Ten Commandments (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which king of Israel built the temple in Jerusalem?

<p>Solomon (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the process of the original apostles passing on their authority to their successors?

<p>Apostolic Succession (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How many books are in the Old Testament according to the Catholic Church?

<p>46 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary language of Jesus?

<p>Aramaic (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is not part of the Pentateuch?

<p>Matthew (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe God's communication about himself and his saving plan for us?

<p>Divine Revelation (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe the belief in one God?

<p>Monotheism (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe God taking on human flesh?

<p>Incarnation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe the Catholic Church's teaching authority?

<p>Magisterium (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe the Catholic Church's teaching that God preserved Mary from original sin?

<p>Immaculate Conception (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the prophet who predicted the birth of Jesus?

<p>None of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary celebration where Jews remember the Exodus?

<p>Passover (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe a lack of religion or indifference to religion?

<p>Irreligion (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the Holy Spirit in the Gospel of John?

<p>Paraclete (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe God's power?

<p>Omnipotent (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the Gospel that is different from the synoptic Gospels?

<p>Gospel of John (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How many signs are mentioned in the Gospel of John?

<p>7 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe the early Greek translation of the Old and New Testaments?

<p>Septuagint (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who guided or inspired the gospel writers as they wrote their Gospel?

<p>Holy Spirit (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe the Gospel of John?

<p>Christology from above (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe the central Church belief that Jesus assumed a human nature and became man in order to save us from our sins?

<p>Dogma (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe the work of salvation accomplished by Jesus mainly through his passion, death and resurrection?

<p>Pascels Mystery (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How many books are in the New Testament according to the Catholic Church?

<p>27 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe the process of attributing human qualities to God?

<p>Antheanism (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is the first person in the Bible to kill another person?

<p>Cain (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is not part of the Pentateuch?

<p>Job (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the two components of Divine Revelation?

<p>Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the angel who gave the news to Mary?

<p>Gabriel (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did God promise Noah?

<p>Never to destroy the world again (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the subcategories that Jesus broke the Ten Commandments into?

<p>Love of God and Love of Neighbor (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What group of people during Jesus' life believed in violence to overthrow their enemies?

<p>Zealots (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the word 'Gospel' translate from in Greek?

<p>Good News (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What finally convinced Pharaoh to allow the Israelites to leave Egypt?

<p>The killing of his son (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the word Passover refer to?

<p>Passing over the houses with lamb blood (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a judgment reason in relation to morality?

<p>Conscience (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is not one of the categories of the New Testament books?

<p>None of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Saint Augustine, what are the four objects we should love?

<p>All of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why did the gospel writers decide to write down the Gospels?

<p>All of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why are the synoptic gospels called that?

<p>They are alike in style and content (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT one of the stages in the formation of the Gospels?

<p>Revelation (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which group made up a large part of the Sanhedrin, the major law-making body in the Supreme Court of Judaism?

<p>Pharisees (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is the founder of the Xaverian brothers?

<p>Theodore Ryken (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How do the Jews to this day celebrate the Maccabean revolt?

<p>By lighting candles for 8 days (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why were the ten plagues in the Bible exaggerated?

<p>The liberation of people (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is not one of the religions that trace their root beach to Abraham?

<p>None of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How many editors are in the Torah?

<p>4 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What relationship did Lot have to Abraham?

<p>Nephew (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the Tower of Babel story, what was the punishment?

<p>Mixing up the languages (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following words defines the following, “A literary device in which human emotional qualities and physical traits are attributed to God,”?

<p>Anthropomorphism (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is not part of the Pentateuch?

<p>None of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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