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What's Your Catholic IQ?—November/December 2009

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by Joe Paprocki

Have fun reviewing what you know about your Catholic faith. Circle the letter next to the word or phrase that correctly completes each statement. Then check your answers with the answer key at the bottom of the quiz. Share this exercise with your students and their families.

1. Another name for the Liturgy of the Hours is the
(a) Divine Worship   (b) Divine Liturgy   (c) Divine Office   (d) Divine Comedy

2. Beginning with the First Sunday of Advent (November 29 this year), the Scripture readings at Sunday Masses will be from cycle
(a) A   (b) B   (c) C   (d) D

3. Which of the following is not a title given to Emmanuel in the hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”?
(a) Wisdom   (b) Rod of Jesse   (c) Morning Star   (d) Key of David

4. Pope Benedict’s most recent encyclical is entitled
(a) Caritas in Veritate   (b) Muchos Gracias   (c) Veritatis Splendor   (d) Veritas in Caritate

5. Which of the following is not a liturgical vessel?
(a) paten   (b) ciborium   (c) chalice   (d) ambo

6. Which of the following is not found on the altar during Mass?
(a) corporal   (b) maniple   (c) paten   (d) Sacramentary

7. The Felician Sisters are part of the ___ tradition.
(a) Dominican   (b) Franciscan   (c) Benedictine   (d) Copernican

8. The remission of temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven is known as an
(a) indult   (b) iconoclasm   (c) inquisition   (d) indulgence

9. When a priest or deacon relocates from one diocese to another, the process of formalizing his relationship with the bishop of his new diocese is called
(a) incantation   (b) recardination   (c) incardination   (d) beatification

10. The Jewish prayer, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One!” is known as the
(a) Shema   (b) Shinto   (c) Talmud   (d) Sukkot

11. Catholics believe that God’s Revelation comes to us through
(a) Scripture alone   (b) Scripture and Tradition   (c) Tradition alone   (d) the Code of Canon Law

12. About 40 years ago, this pope issued a social encyclical called Populorum Progressio
(a) John Paul II   (b) John Paul I   (c) Pius XII   (d) Paul VI

13. Another name for the Rosary’s Mysteries of Light is
(a) Numinous Mysteries   (b) Luminaria Mysteries   (c) Florescent Mysteries   (d) Luminous Mysteries

14. John the Baptist’s words, “Make ready the way of the Lord” are a quote from which prophet?
(a) Baruch   (b) Jeremiah   (c) Isaiah   (d) Ezekiel

15. Mary set out, proceeding in haste into the hill country to a town of Judah, where she entered ______’s house and greeted Elizabeth.
(a) Zacchaeus   (b) Zechariah   (c) Zephaniah   (d) Zipporah

16. During Advent, we omit the following at Mass
(a) Gloria   (b) Alleluia   (c) Sign of Peace   (d) Penitential Rite

17. This fourth-century bishop was the chief defender of the truth of Jesus’ divinity against the Arian heresy.
(a) Anastasia   (b) Aristotle   (c) Augustine   (d) Athanasius

18. Although this woman dreamed of being a missionary in China, Pope Leo XIII encouraged her to sail west to the New World.
(a) Mother Teresa   (b) Mother Cabrini   (c) Mother Guerin   (d) Mother May I

19. The first and chief Sacrament of the forgiveness of sins is
(a) Penance and Reconciliation   (b) Anointing of the Sick   (c) Initiation   (d) Baptism

20. For the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, the sacramental seal is _____.
(a) indispensible   (b) unconstitutional   (c) inviolable   (d) incontrovertible

Answer Key

1. (c) The Divine Office takes its name from the Latin word officium which means duty. Catholic clergy have the duty of praying the Liturgy of the Hours daily.
2. (c) During cycle C, we hear the Gospel of Luke proclaimed.
3. (c) The titles in the hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” come from the seven “O Antiphons” prayed at Vespers during the Octave before Christmas. “Morning Star” is a title given to our Mother in the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
4. (a) Caritas in Veritate, which means “charity in truth,” was promulgated on June 29, 2009, the Solemnity of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
5. (d) The word ambo refers to the pulpit or lectern from which the Liturgy of the Word is proclaimed at Mass.
6. (b) A maniple (a band of silk or other material about a yard long and worn over the left forearm) is an optional vestment for priests.
7. (b) The Felicians are formally known as the Congregation of Sisters of St. Felix and were founded in 1855 by Blessed Mary Angela (Sophia) Truszkowska in Poland. They follow the Rule of St. Francis.
8. (d) Indulgences can be plenary (remits all temporal punishment for sin) or partial (remits only part of the temporal punishment for sin).
9. (c) The incardination process theologically emphasizes the permanent association of bishops, priests, and deacons. In essence, priests and deacons represent the local bishop and, as such, are under his jurisdiction.
10. (a) Jewish people are obligated to say the Shema in the morning and at night (based on Deuteronomy 6:4-7).
11. (b) Catholics understand Scripture and Tradition as being so closely related that they form one single sacred deposit of faith (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 97).
12. (d) Pope Benedict XVI issued his most recent encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, in part to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples).
13. (d) When Pope John Paul II introduced the Luminous Mysteries in 2002, he said, “It is during the years of his public ministry that the mystery of Christ is most evidently a mystery of light: ‘While I am in the world, I am the light of the world’ (Jn 9:5).” (Rosarium Virginis Mariae, n. 19; emphasis in original)
14. (c) John the Baptist’s words, “Make ready the way of the Lord” are taken from Isaiah 40:3-5.
15. (b) Zechariah, the husband of Elizabeth, Mary’s kinswoman, is first introduced in Luke 1:5. He is referred to as a righteous man and as a priest of the line of Abijah.
16. (a) The Gloria, which recalls Jesus’ First Coming, is omitted during Advent as a way of calling us to ponder what’s missing as we await the coming of the Lord, thus predisposing us to pray for his Second Coming.
17. (d) Athanasius was bishop of Alexandria.
18. (b) Mother Frances Cabrini sailed to the New World in 1889. She founded over 70 institutions to care for the sick and poor. In 1946, she became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized.
19. (d) See Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 985.
20. (c) To refer to the sacramental seal as inviolable means that a confessor may not betray a penitent’s confidentiality for any reason. This is stated in Canon Law n. 983.

Joe Paprocki, D.Min., is National Consultant for Faith Formation at Loyola Press in Chicago. He is the author of many books including A Well-Built Faith, The Catechist’s Toolbox, The Bible Blueprint, Living the Mass (Loyola Press) and Bringing Catechesis and Liturgy Together (Twenty-Third Publications). Joe writes from Evergreen Park, IL, where he lives with his wife and serves as an eighth-grade catechist (which he blogs about at catechistsjourney.com).

Source: CATECHIST Magazine, November/December 2009

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