Lesson B1.T2.1.1

B1.T2.1.1 Good, Evil and Suffering Quiz: WJEC Eduqas Religious Studies, Unit 12

20 questions

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Lesson B1.T2.1.1, Good, Evil and Suffering: 20 multiple choice questions for the WJEC Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies (C120), Unit 12: Route B Component 1 - Theme 2: Good and Evil, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. How does Catholic teaching define evil as privation?

    • A physical force
    • An equal deity
    • Total illusion
    • Absence of good

  2. Which work by St Augustine discusses evil as privation and Original Sin?

    • The Enchiridion
    • On Free Choice
    • City of God
    • Confessions

  3. What are the two distinct types of evil studied in Catholic theology?

    • Physical and mental
    • Moral and natural
    • Human and divine
    • Internal and external

  4. Which Catholic concept explains how evil first entered the world?

    • Cosmic accident
    • Original Sin
    • Divine punishment
    • Karmic balance

  5. What philosophical challenge questions God's goodness alongside suffering?

    • The problem of evil
    • The teleological design
    • The ontological argument
    • The moral imperative

  6. Which Old Testament passage is named in the specification in connection with the meaning of suffering?

    • Isaiah 53
    • Exodus 20:1-15
    • Genesis 1:1-2:3
    • Psalm 139

  7. How do Catholics view the created world in relation to God's goodness?

    • Purely illusionary
    • Flawed from birth
    • Inherently good
    • Entirely neutral

  8. What term describes the suffering caused by events such as earthquakes and diseases?

    • Human suffering
    • Moral evil
    • Privation
    • Natural evil

  9. Why study philosophical challenges to God's goodness and suffering?

    • To prove scientific laws
    • To explore free will
    • To debate church history
    • To learn Hebrew grammar

  10. Which concept from this theme refers to free choice that can lead to evil?

    • Transcendence
    • Free will
    • Privation
    • Stewardship

  11. Which concept refers to the moral law that is written on human hearts, according to Catholic belief?

    • Natural Law
    • Creation ex nihilo
    • Inspiration
    • Imago Dei

  12. Which concept is linked with a person's inner sense of right and wrong?

    • Conscience
    • Stewardship
    • Omnipotence
    • Revelation

  13. What do Natural Law and human conscience act as evidence of in Catholic teaching?

    • Human weakness
    • God's goodness
    • Blind chance
    • Divine wrath

  14. Which biblical passage is linked in the specification to Jesus as the fulfilment of the law?

    • Revelation 20
    • Genesis 1-3
    • Matthew 5-7
    • John 1:1-14

  15. Which St Augustine term is given for evil as the absence of good?

    • Consubstantiality
    • Predestination
    • Imago Dei
    • Privation

  16. Which Catholic concept explains the meaning of Christ's suffering and death?

    • Annihilation
    • Predestination
    • Transubstantiation
    • Redemption

  17. Which term does the specification use for evil that comes from nature rather than human choice?

    • Moral evil
    • Original evil
    • Natural evil
    • Divine evil

  18. What is evil and suffering set against in Catholic teachings on free will?

    • Divine vengeance
    • Angelic nature
    • Eternal damnation
    • God's goodness

  19. Which theologian is named in the specification regarding the privation view of evil?

    • John Calvin
    • St Augustine
    • St Thomas Aquinas
    • Pelagius

  20. Whose alternative views on evil must learners compare according to the specification?

    • Ancient and modern
    • Christian and non-Christian
    • Eastern and Western
    • Catholic and Protestant

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