THEO 500 LONG TEST

1. Salvation is the reconciliation of broken relationships, then our relationships with

God, with other people, and with the created world at work.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

2. Our salvation is evident when we take courage to speak an unpopular truth,

listen to others’ views with compassion, help colleagues attain their goals, and
produce work products that help other people thrive.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

3. Jesus emphasizes that this salvation is not for one group of people only but is
intended to help anyone on earth to be among the people of God, by faith.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

4. Paul said that our reconciliation with God leads to freedom from sin and a
newness of life that is not limited by death.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

5. The Gabriels who step into our lives have flesh and blood. Their approach may
be less spectacular than apparitions, but they make the presence of God every
bit as real.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

6. Faith does not suddenly appear, in full blossom, in someone’s life; it has a
history. Our relationship with God has to be awakened, cultivated, stretched and
tested.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE
7. God called Abraham, Sarah, and their family to stay on their homeland for the
new country that God would show them.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

8. At every point, Abraham and his family face crucial questions about how to return
home and work in faithful observance of God’s covenant.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

9. Abraham and his family find that God is faithful to his promise to bless them in all
circumstances, although they themselves prove faithless again and again.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

10. The purpose of God’s covenant is not merely to bless Abraham’s family in a
hostile world but He intends to bless the whole world through Abraham and his
family.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

11. By God’s grace, Abraham and his family retain a core of faithfulness to the
covenant, and God works through them beset with faults, to bring unimaginable
blessings to the world.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

12. Foolishly, Moses attempted to flee the presence of the Lord by taking a ship to
foreign shores.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

13. Although Jonas was a Hebrew, he was raised in Egypt’s royal family as the
grandson of Pharaoh.
 A. TRUE
B. FALSE
14. A brush fire in the semi-desert is nothing exceptional, but Moses was intrigued by
the nature of this particular one.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

15. The Lord introduced himself as the God of the patriarchs and communicated his
intent to rescue his people from Egypt and to bring them into the land he had
promised to Abraham.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

16. In many churches today, the term “call” is limited to religious occupations, but this
is not so in Scripture, and certainly not in the book of Exodus.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

17. Jonas himself was not a priest or religious leader but a shepherd, statesman, and
governor.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

18. God’s callings do not bypass ordinary human experience as they run right
through and the needs of people—their need for reassurance, their need of other
men and women to accompany them along the journey of faith, their thirst for
freedom and life— become a call of the Spirit.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

19. At the Jordan, Jesus said yes to God, just as his mother had done in the hour he
was conceived.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

20. In Christian piety, to find Mary is to find her son, for everything in her life points to
him.
 A. TRUE
B. FALSE
21. The presence of an archangel at the beginning is not going to make our journey
of faith easier but mindful of what happened to Mary enhances our desire that
God would call us to take part in the redemption of the human race.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

22. Our first vocation is to be grateful and to a large part of the religious impulse, and
of our religious duty, is to be thankful to God.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

23. Once Christians embrace the redemption that Jesus offered on the cross,
publicly committing to life with Him through baptism, a new calling on their life
emerges.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

24. The calls of creation and redemption need to be fleshed out at the areas where
discernment of vocation is particularly important, which are: work, relationships,
and our role within the Church.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

25. Our vocation to the Church includes building it up by participating in the weekly
pattern of worship and by giving our time, talents and financial contributions to
the practical needs of the parish.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

26. Relationships -- whether with a partner, family, neighbor, work colleagues, or

country -- should allow us to make a gift of ourselves to someone else.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

27. Matrimony entrust a man or woman with the authority to act in Christ’s own name
in certain important ways, such as presiding at the Eucharist or forgiving sins.
 A. TRUE
B. FALSE
28. Our Christian vocation involves living out, in a way that is right for us, the new
identity we have as a brother or sister of Christ within the Church.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

29. Being a Christian stands at odds with being a human being because human
nature is corrupt and imperfect.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

30. God called Moses away from the city of Haran toward the land of Nineveh where
he and his family would never settle into a fixed address.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

31. Abraham was blessed with the patience to take a long-term view insofar as
God’s promises were to be realized in his time but of his offspring.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

32. God’s promise of posterity to Abraham would require the work of developing
personal relationships, parenting, politics, diplomacy and administration,
education, the healing arts, and other social occupations.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

33. Only when the sailors forced Jonah to be thrown into the sea does the storm
abate and the danger to the community subside.

A. TRUE
B. FALSE

34. It consists of responding to the call of transformation that one has realized from
his theological reflection.

A. Lived Human Experience

 B. Reflected Action
C. Theological Reflection
D. Rational Analysis

35. It asses the causes and effects of one’s lived human experience.

A. Lived Human Experience

B. Reflected Action
C. Theological Reflection
D. Rational Analysis

36. It seeks the will of God in one’s lived experience in the light of the various
sources of faith.

A. Lived Human Experience

B. Reflected Action
C. Theological Reflection
D. Rational Analysis

37. It consists of one’s desirable or undesirable, pleasant o unpleasant, joys or

sorrows, love or selfishness, hate or forgiveness, happiness or unhappiness, etc.
human condition.

A. Lived Human Experience

B. Reflected Action
C. Theological Reflection
D. Rational Analysis

38. The process by which one’s faith in God is brought into the level of
understanding.

A. Theology
B. Faith
C. Revelation
D. Theological Hermeneutic Cycle

39. The process by which one would seek the will of God on his lived human
experience in the light of reason and faith and thereby act upon that which
requires him to do God’s will.

A. Theology
B. Faith
C. Revelation
D. Theological Hermeneutic Cycle
40. The process by which God makes a self-disclosure of himself to humankind in
human history.

A. Theology
B. Faith
C. Revelation
D. Theological Hermeneutic Cycle

41. The process by which man and the entire humanity make a favorable response
to God’s disclosure of himself.

A. Theology
B. Faith
C. Revelation
D. Theological Hermeneutic Cycle

42. St. Anselm states that for faith to be intelligible it must be understood not only in
the light of faith but also in the light of reason.

A. Theology
B. Faith
C. Revelation
D. Theological Hermeneutic Cycle

43. It consists of the testimony of the living witnesses of Jesus Christ that has been
handed down from one generation to the next.

A. Sacred Tradition
B. Magisterium
C. Sacred Scriptures
D. Arguments of Reason

44. They are inclusive of the insights and findings of the natural and physical
sciences as well as the philosophical, artistic and humanistic disciplines.
 A. Sacred Tradition
B. Magisterium
C. Sacred Scriptures
D. Arguments of Reason

45. It is understood as the written word of God in words of men who were under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

A. Sacred Tradition
B. Magisterium
C. Sacred Scriptures
D. Arguments of Reason

46. The official teaching authority of the Church.

A. Sacred Tradition
B. Magisterium
C. Sacred Scriptures
D. Arguments of Reason

47. The level of expression which consists of one’s adherence to the set of beliefs
and doctrines held by the Church.

A. Creed and Doctrine

B. Cult and Worship
C. Code and Morals
D. The Apostles Creed

48. The level of expression which consists of one’s trust in God via prayer and
sacraments.

A. Creed and Doctrine

B. Cult and Worship
C. Code and Morals
D. The Apostles Creed

49. The level of expression which consists of one’s commitment to live by the divine,
natural and human positive laws.

A. Creed and Doctrine

B. Cult and Worship
C. Code and Morals
D. The Apostles Creed

50. It consists of the Christians’ declaration of their faith in the Trinitarian God..
 A. Creed and Doctrine
B. Cult and Worship
C. Code and Morals
D. The Apostles Creed
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