CLAIRE’S SUPER QUIZ 2005!
Warm-up
question #1: Who are the following
people?
St.
Ignatius of Loyola, St. Philip Neri, St. Vincent De Paul, St. Francis De Sales,
St. Theresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Charles Borromeo
A.
The Catholic Informers
B.
The Catholic Performers
C.
The Catholic Reformers
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Warm-up
question #2: Truth or Myth: The first Christians did not use images of Christ
or the saints.
B. Myth
OK,
Now you are ready for the Super Quiz. Good luck!
1. All of the
following men were Catholic priests except for one. Which one was NOT a
Catholic priest?
A. St. Patrick (387-461 A.D)
B.
St. Augustine (354-450 A.D.)
C. St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1286
A.D.)
D. St. Thomas Aquinas
E. St. Anselm (died 1109 A.D.)
F. St. Irenaeus (125-202 A.D.).
G. St. Ignatius (born 50 A.D.)
H. St. Athanasius (296-397 A.D.)
I. St. Jerome (340-420 A.D.)
J. St. Clement of Rome (died c. 100
A.D.)
2. According to St. Augustine, where do we
commemorate the souls of dead believers?
A.
we shouldn’t
B. at the altar of the Mass
3. St. Jerome said he would accept a man who
was:
A. Joined to
the chair of Peter
B. Joined to one wife
4. Which bishop was regarded as having primacy in the early Church?
A. The bishop
of Carthage
B. The bishop of Rome
C. The bishop of Milan
5. According
to St. Irenaeus, why should everybody agree with the Church in Rome?
6. St. Cyprian of Carthage, a Bishop in the
Early Church, wrote that there was only one what?
A.
One altar
B. One priesthood
C. One reformation
7. According to St. Cyprian of Carthage in 251
A.D., what must one do in order to be confident that one is in the Church?
1. be in union
with the Chair of Peter (i.e. pope)
2. be in union with one’s Bible study leader
8. The apostles St. Peter and St. Paul
organized the Church in Rome. Where did John Calvin set up his new religion in
the 16th Century?
A. Geneva,
Switzerland
B. Venice, Italy
C. Madrid, Spain
9. John Calvin has the distinction of being
the first person ever to do what?
A. Leave the
Catholic Church
B. Claim that a true Christian could not lose salvation
10. Martin
Luther wrote that Mary was “_____________.”
A. “a common sinner”
B. “entirely without sin”
11.
All of the following are true except one.
Which is NOT true about St. Augustine?
A. He was a Catholic priest
B. He was a Catholic bishop
C. He was a Catholic monk
D. He founded a Catholic monastery
E. He helped manage a convent of nuns
F. His father died a pagan
12. Which of the following is TRUE about Anselm
of Canterbury?
A. He was a
Catholic priest
B. He was a Catholic monk
C. He was the Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury
D. He was a Catholic saint and Doctor of the Catholic Church
E. He fought schism (separation from the Catholic Church)
F. He testified to the supremacy of the Roman Pontiff
G. All of the above
13. After a difficult spiritual struggle, St.
Augustine surrendered himself to Christ fully, and pledged what?
a. Money
to public television
b. allegiance to the African flag
c. chastity until death
14.
According to St. Augustine, what was religious life (life of nuns, monks,
priests) based on?
a. assurance
b. imputation
c. poverty
15. What does St. Augustine ponder in his
book “Gift of Perseverance”?
16. What was one thing
condemned by the Council of Carthage in 252 A.D.?
A.
the idea that newborns had
to wait a week to get baptized
B.
forehead baptism
17. Truth or Myth: The Catholic Church burned Bibles to prevent believers from
reading the Word of God.
A. A. Truth
B. B. Myth
18.
To what practice was St. Augustine referring when he declared: “For the whole Church observes
this practice which was handed down by the Fathers.”
A.
Praying and giving alms for
the dead
B. Praying for the living
19.
According to St. Augustine, God does not need our cooperation to create us, but
he DOES need our cooperation to do what?
A.
to justify us
B.
to punish us
20. St. Augustine said that all of the
following things (except one) keep him in the Catholic Church. Which one should
NOT be on the list?
A. the
Church’s authority
B. the Church’s miracles
C. the Church’s age
D. the name “Catholic”
E. the succession of priests, connecting back to Peter
F. the five solas
21. Which of the
following was believed by St. Augustine?
A.
each
sin deserves an equal penance
B.
more
wicked sins deserve harsher penances
22. According to St. Augustine, what has the
Catholic Church always possessed?
A.
“the crown of beauty”
B.
“the crown of royalty”
C.
“the crown of teaching authority”
23. In the year 156 A.D., what did Christians of the Church of
Smyrna say were “more valuable than precious stones”?
A.
the
bones of the deceased bishop of Smyrna
B. the writings of the deceased bishop of Smyrna
24. In 253 A.D., St. Cyprian of Carthage wrote that “sinners may do _________ for a set time.”
A.
crossword
puzzles
B.
nothing in particular
C.
penance
25. Who developed a symbolic interpretation of
the Eucharist?
A.
Mr. Zwingli (16th century Reformer)
B.
St. Augustine ( 4th-5th century Church Doctor)
26. How did the Early Church view the idea that all sins were equal?
A. Heresy of the Stoics
B. Heresy of Nestorians
C. Heresy of the Donatists
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