Thursday, April 30, 2015

Daily Quiz, April 2015

Daily Quiz, April 30, 2015

Which of the following is not true about Sarah Josepha Buell Hale?

a. first woman American Novelist
b. wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
c. Campaigned to make Christmas a National Holiday
d. was a very influential editor
e. campaigned for the completion of the Bunker Hill monument
 

Daily Quiz, April 29, 2015

What is common between the following women, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Hildegaard of Bingen and Thérèse of Lisieux?

a. all Dominican
b. all Franciscan
c. all Patron saints of Europe
d. all are Doctors of the Church

 
Daily Quiz, April 28, 2015

Which two Gospels include the "Beatitudes?"

a. Matthew and Mark
b. Luke and Mark
c. Luke and John
d. John and Mark
e. Matthew and Luke
f. John and Matthew


Daily Quiz, April 27, 2015

Christina Rosetti who adopted Anglo-Catholic pieties was a co-founder of what avant-garde artistic movement?

a. Dadaism
b. Cubism
c. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
d. English Romantic

Daily Quiz, April 26, 2015

Which of the following is not a name for God in the Hebrew Scriptures?

a. El
b. Yah
c. Adonai
d. Elohim
e. Beth

Daily Quiz, April 25, 2015

Which of the following is not true about St. Mark?

a. He was one of the twelve disciples
b. He was the cousin of Barnabas
c. He came to be regarded as the author of the Gospel with his name
d. He was a companion of Paul on a missionary journey

Daily Quiz, April 24, 2015

The St. George Cross is not found in which of the following flags?

a. England
b. Bermuda
c. Canada
d. Episcopal Church
e. New Zealand

Daily Quiz, April 23, 2015

Who is the patron saint of England and known for dragon slaying?

a. Michael
b. Gabriel
c. George
d. David


Daily Quiz, April 22, 2015

What well-known conservationist is a saint in Episcopal Calendar of saints, "Holy Women, Holy Men," on Earth Day?

a. John Jay Auduban
b. John Muir
c. Anson Adams
d. Charles Willson Peale

Daily Quiz, April 21, 2015 

Which of the following is not true of St. Anselm?

a. he was Archbishop of Canterbury
b. he was Abbot of Bec 
c. he was a Benedictine
d. he was a teacher of Thomas Aquinas
e. he was the founder of Scholasticism

Daily Quiz, April 20, 2015

St. Anselm was known in theology for what topics?

a. teleological argument for the existence of God
b. ontological argument for the existence of God
c. satisfaction theory of the atonement
d. predestination
e. a and d
f. b and c

Daily Quiz, April 19, 2015

Who is the prophet who interpreted the meaning of the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar?

a. Amos
b. Obediah
c. Belteshazzar
d. Micah

Daily Quiz, April 18, 2015

What is the village of Emmaus known for in the Gospel of Luke?

a. a miracle of Jesus
b. the setting for the parable of the Good Samaritan
c. the destination for two disciples of Jesus after the crucifixion
d. the tomb of Lazarus

 Daily Quiz, April 17, 2015

Who were Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego?

a. Officers in King David's army
b. Assyrian military commanders
c. friends of Job
d. Hebrew boys in Babylon who were thrown into a fiery furnace

 Daily Quiz, April 16, 2015

The expression "feet of clay" comes from the dream of what biblical figure?

a. Daniel
b. Joseph
c. Nebuchadnezzar 
d. the Pharaoh

Daily Quiz, April 15, 2015

Ancient Israel had a combination of taxing and tithing for social welfare.  The practice of gleaning was incumbent on land owners to leave some produce to be harvested by which of the following groups of people?

a. poor
b. widows
c. orphans
d. resident aliens
e. all of the above


Daily Quiz, April 14, 2015

According to the Hebrew Scriptures which of the following was not a method taxation?
(in ancient society when sanctuary and public policy were united, it is hard to distinguish a "religious tax or tithe" from tax in general.  If a king serves by "divine" right, then taxes to the up keep of a King has "religious" implications.

a. drafted or forced labor for projects such as building the temple
b. emergency levies for going to war
c. poll tax based upon census
d. required gleanings/leftovers in the field for the poor
e. returning of one's sold family property in a Jubilee year
f.  grain, oil, and wine and other offerings to the sanctuary
g. use of trade route tax


Daily Quiz, April 13, 2014

Historical questions about the relationship between tithe and tax in ancient Hebrew communities regard whether tithe or taxes were ever completely voluntary.  The sociologist Max Weber stated that penalty for non-payment of tithe was what?

a. expulsion from the tribe
b. family shunning
c. ritual declassifications or forms of what we would call "excommunication"
d. imprisonment


Daily Quiz, April 12, 2015

The "Pascha Nostrum" is the canticle used in the place of the "Venite" during Easter Season?  The "Pascha Nostrum" derives from what source?

a. writings of St. Paul
b. the Epistle to the Romans
c. the First Epistle to the Corinthians
d. all of the above

Daily Quiz, April 11, 2015

Thomas, Mary, Philip and Judas share what in common?

a. members of the twelve disciples
b. eye witnesses to the death of Jesus
c. all received post-resurrection appearances of Christ
d. all are list as authors of a "Gnostic" Gospel


Daily Quiz, April 10, 2015

According to the book of Daniel, who is the Prince and Protector of the People?

a. the Son of Man
b. Michael
c. the Messiah
d. Enoch

 Daily Quiz, April 9, 2015 

Ezekiel had a vision of the valley of the dry bones and what did the breath of the four winds do to these bones?

a. blew them away
b. made them into skeletons
c. resurrected dead Israelites to return them home
d. made them into dancing skeletons

 Daily Quiz, April 8, 2015

According to Bede, the word Easter is believed to derived from a month named after the goddess Eostre; what is a more common derivation word found in other languages for the Easter feast?

a. Triduum
b. Pasch/Pascha/Pesach
c. Passover
d. Aneste

 Daily Quiz, April 7, 2015

How long does the season of Easter last?

a. an octave
b. a fortnight
c. Forty Days
d. Fifty Days

Daily Quiz, April 6, 2015

The Gospels record that Jesus had post-resurrection appearances in Jerusalem and Galilee.  How long would it take to walk from Jerusalem to Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee about 111 miles over varied terrain?

a. 22-31 hours
b. 3 hours
c. 14 hours
d. 7 hours

Daily Quiz, April 5, 2015

Of all of the Scripture readings in the Great Vigil, which lesson from the Hebrew Scriptures is required by the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer?

a. The creation story from Genesis
b. The Dry Bones of Ezekiel
c. The Deliverance of Israel in the Red Sea crossing of Exodus
d. Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis

Daily Quiz, April 4, 2015

What is the prayer which is chanted at the lighting of the Paschal candle called?

a. The Canticle
b. Exultet
c. Jubilate
d. Solemn Collect


Daily Quiz, April 3, 2015

In which Passion Gospel account does Pontius Pilate ask Jesus, "What is truth?"

a. Matthew
b. Mark
c. Luke
d. John

Daily Quiz, April 2, 2015

In which Gospel does the "Last Supper"  does not seem at the time of Passover meal?

a. Matthew
b. Mark
c. Luke
d. John

 Daily Quiz, April 1, 2015

In which Holy Week/Easter liturgy does the following take place: lighting of the Paschal Candle, reading the lessons of Salvation history, baptism/renewal of baptismal vows and Eucharist?

a. Good Friday
b. Maundy Thursday
c. Easter Vigil
d. Tenebrae

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