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1. Why was the Diocletian Persecution known as the Great Persecution?
Answer: It caused the systematic destruction of churches, imprisonment of Bishops and execution of thousands
2. How did division and heresy help define doctrine more clearly?
Answer: By forcing the Church to write creeds and clarify official teachings
3. What was the Protestant Reformation?
Answer: 16th-century revolt led by Martin Luther that divided and eventually splintered Christianity
4. Where did the first universities come from?
Answer: The Catholic Church established universities
5. Also known as the Black Death, swept through Europe killing one third of the people
Answer: Bubonic Plague
6. The mystical manifestation of some or all the wounds of Christ on a person’s body is called
Answer: Stigmata
7. What was the Church’s purpose for the Inquisition?
Answer: To identify and correct heresies within the Church
8. How did Vatican II encourage greater involvement of the laity?
Answer: Both A and B (Laity were called to have greater involvement in day-to-day operations and laypeople were encouraged to serve in ministries and apostolic work)
9. For what reasons were the early ecumenical councils of the Church called?
Answer: To address heresies and clarify Church teaching
10. Which group did Hitler and the Nazis persecute and kill during World War II?
Answer: Jewish, Christian, and disabled people
11. Who were two great saints that formed mendicant orders?
Answer: St. Francis of Assisi and St. Dominic
12. What was the Great Western Schism?
Answer: A period when three men claimed to be pope
13. What was the result of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s appearance to Juan Diego?
Answer: Nearly ten million native Mexicans embraced the Catholic faith
14. Who were the Fathers of the Church, and how did they influence the Church?
Answer: They were early bishops and theologians whose writings and teachings helped define Christian doctrine
15. What was the motto of St. Ignatius of Loyola?
Answer: Ad majorem Dei gloriam
16. What belief holds that God created the universe but no longer sustains or intervenes in it?
Answer: Deism
17. Why did the Catholic Church establish a separate education system from the public schools?
Answer: To keep Catholic children from being exposed to anti-Catholic propaganda
18. What divinely revealed truth declared in 1854 teaches that Mary was conceived without Original Sin?
Answer: The Immaculate Conception
19. The obstinate denial after Baptism of a truth that must be believed with divine and Catholic faith
Answer: Heresy
20. The handing on of apostolic preaching and authority from the Apostles to their successors
Answer: Apostolic succession
21. Latin abbreviation for “in the year of the Lord” used in dating events
Answer: Anno Domini (AD)
22. Which of the following did Our Lady of Fatima ask the three children to do?
Answer: All of the above (Daily prayer of the Rosary, Pray for world peace, Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart)
23. What is the origin of Islam?
Answer: It came from a man named Muhammad who claimed to receive the Qur’an from the Archangel Gabriel
24. What was the Avignon Papacy?
Answer: Popes living in France under royal control
25. The official list of inspired books that were in all Bibles until the 1500s and remain in Catholic Bibles today
Answer: Canon of Scripture
26. Which black saint was known for humility, miracles, and ministering to the poor in Peru?
Answer: St. Martin de Porres
27. Theory set forth by St. Thomas Aquinas stating certain conditions that must be met before going to war
Answer: Just War Theory
28. How did the Catholic Church respond to the rise of Nazism before and during WWII?
Answer: All of the above (Diplomatic initiatives, Denunciations of Nazi ideology, Aid to victims)
29. The ancient city of Byzantium, renamed after Emperor Constantine, and the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire
Answer: Constantinople
30. What is the “New Evangelization”?
Answer: A revival of missionary work in lands once Christian but now secular
31. What is the Gothic style of architecture known for?
Answer: Magnificent Churches built to glorify God
32. What did Humanae Vitae teach?
Answer: It upheld traditional Church teaching on sexuality and condemnation of contraception
33. A person claiming to be pope but not chosen legitimately
Answer: Antipope
34. Ecclesiastical body comprising cardinals of the Church who select the next pope
Answer: College of Cardinals
35. What was the purpose of Vatican II?
Answer: To pastorally present unchanging truths in new ways
36. How did division between the Catholic Church in the East and West grow?
Answer: Cultural, political, and theological differences gradually deepened, leading to mistrust
37. Why did the new Protestant congregations split among themselves?
Answer: Because there was no central authority to handle disagreements
38. A division caused by differences in belief where an individual or individuals refuses to submit to the pope
Answer: Schism
39. What is revealed to us about the Mass by the earliest accounts of it?
Answer: That it closely resembled the modern Catholic Mass in structure
40. The first ecumenical council of the Church which taught Jesus is consubstantial with the Father
Answer: Council of Nicaea
41. What are parochial schools?
Answer: Catholic schools supported by local parishes to educate children
42. Who received visions of Mother Mary that led to the Miraculous Medal devotion?
Answer: St. Catherine Labouré
43. A severe ecclesiastical penalty, resulting from grave crimes against the Catholic religion
Answer: Excommunication
44. The head of the Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome, a representative of Christ
Answer: Pope
45. What encyclical became the foundation for Catholic social teaching on justice and charity in the industrial age?
Answer: Rerum Novarum
46. Who was the poor girl of Lourdes that Mary spoke to and was shown a healing spring?
Answer: St. Bernadette Soubirous
47. What was the Battle of Lepanto?
Answer: A naval victory over the Ottoman Empire by the Holy League through Our Lady of the Rosary
48. Who was St. Patrick, and what did he accomplish?
Answer: An escaped slave who returned to Ireland as a priest, where he practically converted the entire country to Christianity
49. Why did the Founding Fathers not wish to create a purely secular state?
Answer: They knew morality was essential, but it could not be maintained without religion
50. Why was the Council of Trent called?
Answer: All of the above (To respond to Protestant heresies, To affirm Catholic teaching, To reform abuses in the Catholic Church)
51. What ideology views people merely as workers or class enemies instead of persons made in God’s image?
Answer: Communism
52. What are Protestants?
Answer: Christians that followed reformers who separated from the Catholic Church
53. When the Holy Spirit fell down on the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Church was born
Answer: Pentecost
54. Who was St. Elizabeth Ann Seton?
Answer: The first U.S.-born saint
55. The separation of Eastern Christians from the Catholic Church in 1054
Answer: Great Schism
56. A(n) official papal letter or pronouncement
Answer: Papal Bull
57. A person who is killed for bearing witness to the faith
Answer: Martyr
58. What is ecumenism?
Answer: The work of restoring unity among Christians
59. What was St. Peter Claver known for?
Answer: Ministering to enslaved Africans arriving on ships
60. Saints whose writings, teachings, and defense of the Faith have especially advanced the Church’s knowledge and have been formally declared this title
Answer: Doctors of the Church
61. What was Christopher Columbus’s main goal in sailing west from Spain?
Answer: To find a faster trade route to Asia by sailing west
62. How was the canon of Scripture settled upon by the end of the 300s?
Answer: Through Church councils that confirmed the inspired books already in widespread use
63. The men Jesus chose and called to be his representatives. They were the first bishops and sent out to preach the Good News
Answer: Twelve Apostles
64. What is the “culture of death”?
Answer: A culture that treats vulnerable or inconvenient life as disposable
65. How did the idea of religious freedom spread in America?
Answer: Through laws and founding documents guaranteeing freedom of worship
66. What is the rule of life created by St. Benedict of Nursia, and how has it been influential in the life of the Church?
Answer: Known by the phrase “Ora et Labora,” he established rules to live by that are still used today around the world
67. Which French girl became famous for her “Little Way” of holiness in everyday life?
Answer: St. Thérèse of Lisieux
68. How did the Catholic Church respond to the growing slave trade in the Americas?
Answer: By publicly condemning slavery and defending the dignity of all people
69. Which Polish saint received the Divine Mercy message and started the devotion?
Answer: St. Faustina Kowalska
70. Period of cultural flourishing based on the rediscovery of classical philosophy
Answer: Renaissance
71. The official order by Emperor Constantine that guaranteed freedom of religion to Christians in the Roman Empire
Answer: Edict of Milan
72. What event aimed to secularize France and resulted in tens of thousands of Catholic deaths and closed churches?
Answer: The French Revolution
73. The unification of European kingdoms under a single emperor
Answer: Holy Roman Empire
74. Which of the Thirteen colonies became known for promoting religious liberty for all Christians?
Answer: Pennsylvania
75. What did religious freedom mean for various Protestant denominations founding colonies in North America?
Answer: They could establish colonies built on their Christian belief, but they did not allow other beliefs to coexist
76. What role did monasteries play in the Church and in civilization during the Dark Ages?
Answer: They provided places for men and women to grow in faith and holiness, all while preserving civilization for local communities
77. What was the Tridentine Mass?
Answer: The official Eucharistic liturgy of the Catholic Church established by the Council of Trent
78. Name given to the assembly of the Baptized people of God called together from all the ends of the earth. It is both the earthly institution and the heavenly communion
Answer: Church
79. Who was America’s first Catholic bishop?
Answer: John Carroll
80. Why did Bishop Barron say Religion and Science are not in competition?
Answer: All of the above (God is not an object within the universe, They are not on the same playing field, God is not something measurable)
81. Which of the following describes the Novus Ordo?
Answer: The “new order” of the Mass implemented after Vatican II
82. What is the greatest historical event of all time?
Answer: The Incarnation (Jesus in Mary’s womb)
83. A doctrine of the Church that has been divinely revealed to us
Answer: Dogma
84. What steps toward reunification with the Eastern Orthodox Church occurred under Pope St. Paul VI?
Answer: The pope and Patriarch lifted the excommunications of 1054
85. St. Thomas Aquinas’s masterwork that systematically defines everything related to the Catholic faith
Answer: Summa Theologica
86. Period of time after the Fall of Rome filled with chaos and warfare
Answer: Dark Ages
87. Refers to a special grace that allows people to know God in a uniquely intimate way
Answer: Mystics
88. What devotion was revealed to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque during a time of skepticism and Jansenism?
Answer: The Sacred Heart of Jesus
89. How was the original and primary intention of the Crusades righteous?
Answer: It was to protect Christians and take back sacred sites in the Holy Lands from Muslim invasions
90. Buildings where men or women religious live and pray together
Answer: Monastery
91. What was a major liturgical reform under Pope St. Paul VI?
Answer: Clergy and laity were called to active participation in the liturgy
92. What philosophy claims morality is based solely on personal preference or experience?
Answer: Relativism
93. How was the early Church structure similar to today?
Answer: It is hierarchical, with the pope at the head followed by bishops, priests, and deacons
94. The Profession of Faith set forth by two early councils and typically recited at Sunday Mass
Answer: Nicene Creed
95. Series of wars between France and England, where St. Joan of Arc helped France win
Answer: Hundred Years’ War
96. A branch of Christian theology that seeks to defend the faith through reasonable explanations against objections
Answer: Apologetics
97. Which doctrine states that the pope cannot err when definitively teaching on faith or morals?
Answer: Papal infallibility
98. What council did Pope Pius IX call to defend the Church from nationalism, liberalism, and modernism?
Answer: First Vatican Council
99. Vatican City is best described as:
Answer: The sovereign city-state in Rome governed by the pope
100. Why did Martin Luther omit certain OT books from his translation of the Bible?
Answer: He substituted a Jewish canon instead of the one followed by all Christians for over 1,000 years