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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Celebration of the Christian Mysteries: Chapter 2, Sacraments of Initiation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the sacraments?
(a) To assist the People of God into perceiving their relationship to God more clearly.
(b) To please God.
(c) To bring God to the people.
(d) To keep people from committing acts of sin.

2. Why is the cultivation of superior moral character by practicing precepts often still of great benefit to the baptized?
(a) Those who are baptized are perfect and sinless.
(b) The baptized must help all others.
(c) The purification does not significantly alter an individual's nature or disposition.
(d) The purification of baptism lasts forever.

3. How many sacraments are in the Catholic Church?
(a) Ten.
(b) Seven.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

4. Those who are presently Jews but not Christians are still doing what?
(a) Awaiting a Messiah.
(b) Worshiping God.
(c) Praising the Lord.
(d) Seeing the Messiah.

5. Upon what does the first chapter focus?
(a) How people desire God and wish for knowledge of God.
(b) How the Church began.
(c) How people in the Church treat others.
(d) The Church's opinions of other religions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what was Jesus the cornerstone?

2. Why is oil used during Confirmation?

3. What does the Hebrew spelling of YHWH when properly translated actually say?

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

5. What is the entire function of the Church?

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