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8th Grade Chapter 17 We Live Our Faith

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the secret meeting in which the cardinals elect a new pope called?

a)

conclave

b)

reconciliation

c)

relativism

d)

monasticism

2.

Everywhere Pope John Paul II went, he proclaimed the Church's mission of ________________.

a)

conclave

b)

reconciliation

c)

relativism

d)

monasticism

3.

What is the viewpoint that concepts such as right and wrong and truth and falsehood are not absolute but change from culture to culture and situation to situation?

a)

conclave

b)

reconciliation

c)

relativism

d)

monasticism

4.

In his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae, or "The Gospel of Life," Pope John Paul II wrote powerfully about the sacredness of all evangelists.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

In 1986 Pope John Paul II appointed a commission of twelve cardinals and bishops to preside over the writing of the new Catechism of the Catholic Church.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

In 1967 Pope Paul VI issued an encyclical called Populorum Progressio, or "On the Development of Peoples."

a)

True

b)

False

7.

In April 2005 Pope John Paul II died; his successor, Germany's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, took as his name Pius XVI.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Pope John Paul II's 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens ("Through Work") and his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Anno ("Hundredth Year") were issued to honor anniversaries of Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

At his election in 1978, Pope John Paul II became the first non-Polish pope since the 16th century.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Pope __________ had one of the shortest reigns in Church history: only 33 days.

a)

Benedict XVI

b)

John Paul I

c)

John Paul II

d)

Paul VI

11.

In his 1998 encyclical Fides et Ratio, Pope John Paul II wrote about the relationship between faith and ____________.

a)

divine law

b)

the "culture of lfe"

c)

reason

d)

the "culture of death"

12.

Like Pope John Paul II before him, Pope Benedict XVI urges Catholics to stand up for _______ in the face of today's "culture of relativism."

a)

fellowship

b)

revolution

c)

monasticism

d)

the truth

13.

In the Church's "Jubilee Year" of 2000, Pope John Paul II made a historic visit to __________.

a)

Russia

b)

Germany

c)

the Holy Land

d)

Italy

14.

Pope Paul VI's apostolic letter Octagesima Adveniens, or "Eightieth Anniversay," was issued to honor Pope Leo XIII's great social justice encyclical __________.

a)

Veritatis Splendor

b)

Rerum Novarum

c)

Fides et Ratio

d)

Evangelium Vitae

15.

Before becoming pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger gained an international reputation as ____________.

a)

a gifted theologian

b)

a world traveler

c)

an absolute monarch

d)

a founder of monasticism