LESSON 1

Question 1

Pentecost is derived from what language?

Answer 1

Greek language

Question 2

Pentecost in Greek means?

Answer 2

Fifty

Question 3

Pentecost refers to what feast?

Answer 3

The Jewish Feast of Shavuoth

Question 4

True or False: Shavuoth is Latin for week.

Answer 4

False. Hebrew

Question 5

Shavuoth is celebrated how many weeks after the Passover?

Answer 5

Seven weeks

Question 6

What does Shavuoth commemorate?

Answer 6

The delivery / giving of the law on Mount Sinai

Question 7

What is the promised advocate?

Answer 7

The Holy Spirit

Question 8

What is Pentecost?

Answer 8

The day of the descent of the holy spirit while the Blessed Virgin and the disciples were praying

Question 9

The day the Catholic Church was born and a religious community was formed

Answer 9

Pentecost

Question 10

True or False: Pentecost is on the 40th day after Jesus’ resurrection.

Answer 10

False, 50th, while the Jews were celebrating Shavuoth

Question 11

Manifestations of the Holy Spirit

Answer 11

1. A strong wind
2. Tongues of fire
3. Speaking in different tongues

Question 12

This manifestation signifies a new action by God in salvation history

Answer 12

A strong wind

Question 13

This manifestation signifies the strengthening and transforming effect of the Holy Spirit

Answer 13

Tongues of fire

Question 14

This manifestation signifies the universality of the Gospel and the worldwide mission of the Church to spread the good news

Answer 14

Speaking in different languages

Question 15

Peter’s Proclamation: The Kerygma

Answer 15

1. After Jesus died, disciples scattered and went into hiding.
2. The prayed in private and upper rooms, no longer in synagogues.
3. Peter rose from the crowd and proclaimed Jesus as King, Lord, and Messiah.
4. Peter said that Jesus’ resurrection is the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promise to David to raise up one of his descendants.
5. Peter tells the crowd to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
6. 3,000 people were added to the Christian community because of him.

Question 16

The rapid growth of the Church led to the opposition of which ethnicity?

Answer 16

Jews

Question 17

For how many years were persecutions from the religious crowd?

Answer 17

First 14 years

Question 18

When did persecutions come from the political crowd?

Answer 18

When Herod killed James

Question 19

Who was the first martyr of the faith?

Answer 19

Stephen

Question 20

Where was the first Christian community founded?

Answer 20

Antioch, Syria

Question 21

True or False: True Christianity has always been mission-oriented

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Where did the Gospel carry to?

Answer 22

Judea and Samaria

Question 23

What kind of disciples of Jesus fled to Antioch in Syria?

Answer 23

Greek-speaking Jewish disciples

Question 24

What became the center of Christianity from 44-68 A.D.?

Answer 24

A large Gentile church

Question 25

Why was Christianity taught in Greek and Latin?

Answer 25

Due to the spread of Christianity in Greek-speaking territories

Question 26

What resulted in the spread of Christianity beyond Palestine borders?

Answer 26

Stephen’s martyrdom

Question 27

What was the nickname used for Jesus’ followers?

Answer 27

Christians

Question 28

True or False: Christians was the nickname used for Jesus’ followers until the third century.

Answer 28

False, second century

Question 29

A man reminiscent of the hero of the tribe of Benjamin

Answer 29

Paul

Question 30

What is Paul’s Hebrew name?

Answer 30

Saul

Question 31

Where was Paul born?

Answer 31

The Cilician City of Tarsus

Question 32

Paul had what parentage?

Answer 32

Pharisaic parentage

Question 33

Which of Paul’s parents possessed Roman citizenship?

Answer 33

His father

Question 34

Paul was an understudy of?

Answer 34

Gamaliel the elder in Jerusalem

Question 35

Where was Paul journeying to when he had a vision of Jesus?

Answer 35

Damascus

Question 36

When did Paul journey to Damascus?

Answer 36

35 A.D.

Question 37

Paul’s Vision

Answer 37

- He saw the exalted Jesus calling him to personal service - He felt a personal devotion to his master - He deemed Jesus as his closest friend - He was convinced that Jesus was all the Christianity had claimed him to be

Question 38

When did Paul sojourn with Peter and James?

Answer 38

Three years after his conversion

Question 39

Where did Paul work?

Answer 39

Syria and Cilicia

Question 40

What is the most fruitful evangelistic endeavor in the history of the Church?

Answer 40

Paul and Barnabas going on a missionary journey to different places

Question 41

The result of Paul and Barnabas’ missionary journey

Answer 41

The establishment of a group of congregations in the southern Asia Minor

Question 42

When was the Council of Jerusalem first formed?

Answer 42

49 AD

Question 43

What was the issue discussed by the Council of Jerusalem?

Answer 43

The issue of circumcision

Question 44

He is also known as the Lord’s brother

Answer 44

St. James

Question 45

He is the head of the 12 apostles and the first pope of the Council of Jerusalem

Answer 45

St. Peter

Question 46

Who were the two main speakers of the council of Jerusalem?

Answer 46

St. Peter and St. James

Question 47

Why was the Jewish-Christian relationship tested?

Answer 47

Because of three decades of Jewish authorities severely persecuting Christians in Jerusalem

Question 48

When did the separation between Christianity and Judaism occur?

Answer 48

62 AD

Question 49

Why did the separation between Christianity and Judaism occur?

Answer 49

Because James (the leader of Christians in Jerusalem) was arrested by the Jewish High Priest for blasphemy and was beheaded

Question 50

The Roman army surrounding and destroying Jerusalem was commanded by?

Answer 50

Titus, Son of the Emperor Vespasian

Question 51

What did inhabitants of Jerusalem die of during the period of diaspora?

Answer 51

Disease and famine

Question 52

The Period of Diaspora

Answer 52

- The Jews became people without a home, and remnants were scattered - Jerusalem was replaced by the universal Church, welcoming all nations of the Earth

Question 53

Christians were monotheistic, meaning?

Answer 53

They believed in one God

Question 54

Christians were moral, meaning?

Answer 54

They had a moral code rejecting infidelity in marriage and infanticide

Question 55

Christians were cannibals, meaning?

Answer 55

They ate the flesh of a man named Jesus of Nazareth

Question 56

Who did the first persecution?

Answer 56

Emperor Nero in 64 A.D.