By Charles Harvey

   

  1. What two sinful cities were destroyed by God through a hail of fire and brimstone?
    Tyre and Sidon
    Nineveh and Tyre
    Joppa and Jericho
    Sodom and Gomorrah
    Vegas and Reno

       
  2. The cherub used this weapon system to guard the entrance to Eden after Adam and Eve were expelled.
    a snakeskin bullwhip (pretty appropriate, huh?)
    a flaming sword
    a crossbow
    a golden spear
    an Uzi
    aggressive shouting and armwaving

       
  3. The traditional site of the biblical Garden of Eden is in modern-day
    Yemen
    Turkey
    Iran
    Iraq
    Kuwait
    Qatar

       
  4. Corban was
    the distinctive headgear of the Pharisees
    the hemp cinch on camel saddles
    the Temple treasure
    a type of brace for women carrying heavy jars of water on their heads
    a ceremonial bale of hay given only to temple livestock
    a dry, white table wine popular in biblical times, typically served with fish and chicken dishes

     
  5. Who wrote the classic work on spirituality, Introduction to the Devout Life?
    Francis of Assisi
    Francis Xavier
    Frances Xavier Cabrini
    Francis de Sales
    Jane Frances de Chantal
    Dick Francis
    Gordon Lightfoot

      
  6. St. Paul says that the greatest of the virtues is
    faith
    hope
    charity
    mercy
    patience
    a good memory for Bible verses
    flossing after every meal

      
  7. Sometimes saints seem to come in pairs: man and wife, brother and sister, or very devoted friends such as Francis and Clare. Who was the dear friend and fellow saint of St. Francis de Sales?
    Teresa of Avila
    Catherine of Siena
    Jane Frances de Chantal
    Bernadette Soubirous
    Juliana Falconieri
    La Shanta Boufantè

      
  8. Who was the wife of King St. Henry of Bavaria? 
    Rita of Cassia
    Juliana of Norwich
    Cunegond
    Francesca di Roma
    Edith Stein
    Vonshetta Renè Shabbaz

      
  9. Who was the saintly sister of St. Benedict?
    Adelaide
    Benedicta
    Carmen
    Scholastica
    Gymnasia
    Cindy

      
  10. Who was the dear friend and saintly coworker of St. John of the Cross? 
    Thérèse of the Child Jesus
    Teresa of Avila
    Teresa of the Andes
    Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
    Teresa of Calcutta
    Joan of the Cross

      
  11. Who was married to St. Isidore the Farm Worker and is herself venerated as a saint?
    Maria Torribia
    Su Merced Doña Francesca Juliana del Harvey, Guapa de Avila
    Isadora Obreragranja
    Marisol Carmen Pilar Dolores Consuelo Magdalena Rosa Alejandra Isabela Judita Zuñiga y Todolodemascomoese (whew!)
    Cindy

      
  12. These thrilling novels of religious adventure — The Spear, Set All Afire, Citadel of God, The Restless Flame, and The Quiet Light — were authored by one prolific Catholic author: 
    G.K. Chesterton
    Hilaire Belloc
    Franz Werfel
    Louis de Wohl
    Peter Kreeft
    Michael O'Brien
    Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

      
  13. The command of God, “Let there be light” in Genesis 1 is rendered into Latin: 
    Ad astra per aspera
    da mihi quinque
    Cogito ergo sum
    Fiat lux
    Lamborghini Lux
    ex tenebris lux
    caveat lux
    quid nunc quaerunt?

      
  14. The branch of theology dealing specifically with salvation is called
    apocatastasis

    ecclesiology
    soteriology
    ontology
    epistomology
    salvationology

      
  15. The founder of the personal prelature Opus Dei was
    Fr. Juan de la Casas
    Blessed Jose-Maria Escrivá
    Fr. Alphonso Duran
    St. Maximilian Kolbe
    Pio Nono
    Emiliano Zapata
    none of the above

      
  16. Which of these men is understood to have promoted the idea of universal salvation? 
    Augustine
    Tertullian
    Origen
    Jerome
    Polycarp
    Calvin
    Tony Alamo

      
  17. A woman anointed Jesus’ head at dinner at the house of Simon in Bethany with this substance: 
    linseed oil
    myrrh
    mineral oil
    oil of olay
    spikenard

      
  18. Which of these writers was the author of the notorious, anti-Catholic, book-length screech, Roman Catholicism? 
    Avro Manhattan
    Lorraine Boettner
    Avro Yonkers
    Jack Chick
    Alexander Hilsop
    Richard McBrien

      
  19. Which saint is venerated as the patron of Alsace, France? 
    St. Alsace
    St. Boniface
    St. Ireneaus of Lyons
    St. Charles de Gaul the Minimum
    St. Odila
    St. Louis IX, King of France
    St. Théophane Vénard

      
  20. Which saint is venerated as the patron of the region formerly known as Czechoslovakia? 
    St. Nicholas of Flüe
    St. Andrew Bobola
    St. Hildegard of Bingen
    St. Wesceslaus
    St. Stanislaus
    St. Joseph

Explain my wrong answers.
Just gimme my score!

 

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