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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Christian prayer?
(a) An offering to God at night or at mass.
(b) A plea to God for help.
(c) An attitude and a relationship between God and the one praying.
(d) Something said once a day.

2. According to the Catechism, the word "heart" comes up in relation to the source of emotion how many times with some respect to prayer?
(a) Over 100.
(b) Over 50.
(c) Over 1000.
(d) Over 500.

3. What does Baptism do?
(a) It washes away sins.
(b) It makes families happy.
(c) It washes away sins from an entire family.
(d) It makes a person wet.

4. What does morality have to with?
(a) Actions and thoughts that are pure.
(b) Actions that one believes to be right.
(c) What one thinks and does.
(d) Actions which are good, and those that are evil.

5. Do the sacraments of initiation into the Catholic religion intentionally create conditions ideal for any particular individual to serve others in certain ways with a focus on the spiritual aspect of relating?
(a) Rarely.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Maybe.

6. According to the Catechism, for whom is this ordination open?
(a) Children.
(b) Only women.
(c) Only men.
(d) Men and women.

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

8. What are the most striking and temporally proximal precursors to Christian baptism?
(a) The parting of the Red Sea.
(b) The works of John the Baptist.
(c) Jesus' walk on water.
(d) The flood.

9. Israel crossing the Red Sea and the River Jordan and arriving in the promised lands are also recognized as what?
(a) Times when water is a dangerous force.
(b) Times when water does not listen to man.
(c) Times when water is a destroyer of man.
(d) Times when the purifying powers of water were brought into play.

10. How does this chapter begin?
(a) By discussing whether humans need to socialize.
(b) By affirming the social nature of humanity.
(c) By naming Saints who did not require socialization.
(d) By discussing the negative aspects of socialization.

11. What does confession to a priest also do?
(a) It forces an intimate relationship between people and the priest.
(b) It keeps them close to the Church
(c) It encourages people to not sin.
(d) It forces one to confess his or her sins to God.

12. Those who did not deny Christ confessed Him to whom?
(a) Priests.
(b) God.
(c) One another.
(d) Mary.

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

14. The Church reminds readers during the Lord's Prayer of Jesus' teaching that everyone can be and must be what?
(a) Kind.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Patient.
(d) Loving.

15. What is the downside of unconditional love?
(a) The chance that you will not be loved unconditionally.
(b) The possibility of being hurt by others.
(c) A loss of sense of self.
(d) The vices of conspiracy and complicity have often coexisted with this virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What virtue is an apt expression of how the divine person or persons are able to help to manifest circumstances within which the virtues can grow and the vices can be cut down, outgrown or otherwise abandoned?

2. What is a powerful and special device that provides a means of connection?

3. Is socialization a necessary part of human development?

4. What is repentance?

5. What is the one most well-known form of confession?

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