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8th Grade Ch 15 Test

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

True or False: In 1811, even while being held captive by Napoleon, Pope Pius VII elevated Isaac Thomas Hecker from bishop to archbishop of Baltimore.

a)

True

b)

False, John Carroll

2.

Frances Xavier Cabrini founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Italy in 1880.

a)

True

b)

False, Mary Mazzarello

3.

After losing the last of his worldly power to invading Italian troops, Pope Pius IX shut himself within the walls of the Vatican and called himself the “prisoner of Italy.” 

a)

True

b)

False, "Prisoner of the Vatican."

4.

The divine guarantee that the pope’s official statements of doctrine regarding faith and morals are free from error is called ____. 

a)

encyclical

b)

papal infallibility

c)

"Of new Things"

d)

Kulturkampf

5.

____ declared that children could receive their First Holy Communion as soon as they were old enough to understand that Christ was truly present in the Eucharist.

a)

Pope Leo XII

b)

Pope Pius IX

c)

Pope Pius VII

d)

Pope Pius X

6.

By 1850 there were ____ Catholics in the United States.

a)

10,000

b)

200,000

c)

1,000,000

d)

2,000,000

7.

The first great Catholic social justice encyclical, Rerum Novarum (“Of New Things”) was issued in 1891 by Pope ____.

a)

Pius X

b)

Leo XIII

c)

Pius IX

d)

Pius VII

8.

Who was the Archbishop of New York who worker for social justice and civil rights for the largely poor Irish immigrant population?

a)

John Hughes

b)

John England

c)

Joseph Flaget

d)

John Bosco

9.

The Society of St. Francis de Sales, also known as the Salesians, was started in Italy in 1859 by ____.

a)

John Bosco

b)

Katherine Drexel

c)

Daniel O' Connell

d)

Pope Pius IX

10.

The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament were founded in the United States in 1891 by ___.

a)

Katharine Drexel

b)

Catherine McAuley

c)

Mary Mazzarello

d)

Rosalie Rendu

11.

Who was the first bishop of the new Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina; he opened a school for free African-American children?

a)

John England

b)

John Carroll

c)

John Bosco

d)

John Hughes

12.

The ____ of 1869–1870 was the Church’s first ecumenical council since the Council of Trent.

a)

First Plenary Council

b)

Concordat

c)

First Vatican Council

d)

Conclave

13.

In 1833 Antoine-Frederic Ozanam and his advisor, (a)   , organized the Society of St.Vincent de Paul.

14.

John Bosco, the founder of the Salesians, with the help of (a)   , founded an order of Salesian sisters known as the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians.

15.

From December 1869 to October 1870, (a)   convened the First Vatican Council in Rome.

16.

Rerum Novarum, the first great Catholic social justice encyclical, was written by (a)  

17.

What was another name for the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in the United States in 1911.

(a)  

18.

What is another name for the Society of Saint Francis de Sales, founded by Saint John Bosco.

(a)  

19.

Also known as the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, founded in the US in 1911.

(a)  

20.

Pope from 1846 to 1878; he was the longest serving pope in the Church history; he convened the First Vatican Council.

(a)  

21.

What is the Organization founded in Ireland by Daniel O' Connell to work for the civil rights of Catholics in Ireland and England?

(a)  

22.

First ecumenical council since the Council of Trent, during which the dogma of papal infallibility was defined

(a)