InQUIZition - Charles Harvey

Scents and Centsibility
Rack your brain and stretch your knowledge.

1. Biblically and theologically speaking, what is the significance behind the Church's use of incense at Mass?
a) it symbolizes our prayers ascending to an all-holy God
b) it symbolizes the smoke of the immolated sacrificial victim ascending to God
c) it symbolizes the sweet fragrance of Christian holiness
d) it symbolizes incense
e) a and b
f) a and c

2. Which of the following founders of a great religious order was never ordained to the priesthood?
a) St. Benedict
b) St. Dominic
c) St. Ignatius of Loyola
d) St. Alphonsus Ligouri
e) St. Francis of Assisi

3. Okay then, smarty-pants. What was the family name of St. Francis of Assisi?
a) de Assisi
b) Bernardone
c) Compari
d) Domenici
e) Vermicelli
f) Limoncello

4. Before his break with Rome, Martin Luther was a member of which religious order?
a) Augustinians
b) Benedictines
c) Carmelites
d) Dominicans
e) Eudists
f) Franciscans

5. Who was the first person slain by God for wickedness?
a) Cain
b) Nimrod
c) Jubal
d) Onan
e) Er
f) Shemp

6. It has long been customary for priests to receive a stipend based on 50 cents per minute they preach at Mass.
a) true
b) false
c) this practice was done away with by Vatican II

7. In Hebrew, the name "David" means:
a) giant-slayer
b) beloved
c) psalmist
d) shepherd-king
e) fearless
f) get out of my way

8. No fair peeking: Which is the last book of the Old Testament?
a) Amos
b) Zechariah
c) Habakkuk
d) Nehemiah
e) Malachi

9. Who was the only female judge in ancient Israel?
a) Abigail
b) Bathsheba
c) Chloe
d) Deborah
e) Esther
f) Sandra

10. What sign did the Emperor Constantine read in the sky?
a) ex nihilo nihil fit
b) in hoc signo vinces
c) da mihi quinque
d) e pluribus unum
e) Don't worry, be happy

11. The Last Gospel from the old Latin Mass which began "In principio erat Verbum . . ." was from:
a) Matthew
b) Mark
c) Luke
d) John

12. The expression "hocus pocus" is a corruption and ridicule of the Latin in which part of the Mass?
a) the Offertory
b) the Consecration
c) the Introit
d) the Benediction
e) the sign of peace

13. In a breathtaking assault on Sacred Scripture, this corpulent ego of the Reformation insulted the Epistle of St. James, calling it an "epistle of straw":
a) John Knox
b) Ulrich Zwingli
c) John Calvin
d) Martin Luther
e) Henry VIII
d) Serge Bulgakov

14. Which of the following was one of the great Jesuit missionaries of northern Mexico in what is now the southwestern U.S.?
a) Junipero Serra
b) Juan Crespi
c) Eusebio Kino
d) Isaac Jogues

15. How did St. Paul die?
a) wild beasts in the arena
b) beheading
c) upside-down crucifixion
d) scourging
e) natural death

16. St. Augustine had a boy named:
a) Adeodatus
b) Basilides
c) Crementius
d) Deusdedit
e) Epiphanius
f) Sue

17. Who attacked and devastated Rome in A.D. 410?
a) Alaric
b) Attila
c) Genseric
d) Genghis Khan
e) Sulieyman the Magnificent
f) the Bay City Rollers

18. In the 1930s, Jesus appeared to this nun to promote devotion to the Divine Mercy
a) Sr. Lucia
b) Sr. Faustina
c) Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
d) Sr. Lioba
e) Sr. Fabiola

19. Which theologian first wrote that "where sin abounds, grace abounds even more"?
a) St. Augustine
b) St. Bonaventure
c) St. Paul
d) St. Thomas
e) Martin Luther
f) John Calvin

20. C'mon now, 'fess up. Way down deep, which is your personal, all-time, really and truly favorite sense of the four senses of Scripture?
a) literal
b) tropological
c) allegorical
d) anagogical