Paschal Mystery Pre-Assessment

The Resurrection goes beyond human understanding of time and space and thus the Catholic Church calls it _____.

• Transcendent 
• Temporal
• Hocus Pocus
• Marvelous 

What does it mean to say that Jesus “descended into Hell”? 

• He battled Satan for the lost souls
• He never really died
• He had to experience the agony of Hell 
• He preached the Good News to those who had died before the Paschal Mystery   

Who are the first evangelists of the Risen Lord in Luke’s Gospel? 

• The men on the road to Emmaus 
• The Apostles
• Joseph of Arimathea and Niccodemus
• The Women

Matthew Gospel points out that some of Jesus' ancestors include _______because it is concerned with telling the reader that Jesus is the fulfillment of Jewish hopes

• Abraham and David
• Sampson and Delilah
• The Angels
• Moses and Aaron

After Jesus dies on the cross, the veil in the temple is torn down the middle. What does the tearing of the Temple veil symbolize? 

• The years Christians will have to wait for Jesus’ return 
• God's anger at Jesus being killed
• That God didn't like the pattern on the veil
• The end of the Old Covenanet and that Jesus is the New Covenant

Stories or myths about the origins of the world, cultures, languages, and people are called what? 

• Philosophy 
• Primeval History
• Sacred Tradition
• The Stone Age

A binding promise between God and humankind in which God pledges enduring love is called _____

• Covenant
• Mystery
• Beatitude
• My Heart Will Go On

What was the first sin committed by Adam and Eve? 

• Anger
• Pride
• Blasphemy
• Laziness 

Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition are both aspects of _____

• The Bible
• The Deposit of Faith
• The Magisterium
• Jeopardy Categories 

The word dogma means_____

• Worshiping something other than the one true God 
• The study or explanation of a Biblical book or passage  
• A central truth of revelation that Catholics must believe
• a mother dog