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VCE Religion and Society Unit 1 Revision
VCE Religion and Society Unit 1 Revision
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Exam revision for VCE Religion and Society Unit 1 2025
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1
The nature & purpose of religion is to help people find answers to existential questions.
False
True
2
How do religions express their beliefs through charity?
By restricting charity to their own followers
Run food banks, shelters, and healthcare services to support the needy
By getting donations and keeping it for themselves
3
Religious affiliation to Christianity has slowly declined since 1901
True
False
4
What did Pope Francis think of the use of Artificial Intelligence?
Thinks TikTok is a great tool for his sermons
Emphasizes the need for ethical guidelines, hopeful it can be used for good
Worried it will take over his job
Mere existence is evil
5
What impact did colonisation have on the sacred stories of the First Nations Peoples?
Made them disappear forever
Made them seem more interesting
loss of knowledge, cultural disruption, and destruction of sacred sites
Integrated them into the Bible
6
The printing press enabling the mass production of printed materials such as the bible
True
False
7
What do Religious symbols mean to adherents?
Can express moral and ethical teachings
All of the above
Convey meanings that extend beyond their immediate appearance
Act as a universal language among believers
8
Beliefs are thoughts and ideas felt by their believers to be true, expressed through creeds.
True
False
9
Intentional burials indicate a belief in afterlife
False
True
10
Stained glass windows in the church
were only there to keep out the cold
were the Bible for the illiterate
looked pretty in the church
depicted stories from the Quran
11
Ecumenism is?
A new initiative to raise money for the Church
Dialogue between Christian faiths
The study of ancient biblical texts
Dialogue between different faiths eg. Muslim/Christian
12
What is the Democratisation of knowledge?
Making knowledge accessible to everyone
A dark period where no one was allowed to learn
Sharing knowledge via printed books
Making knowledge accessible to the elite
13
Why is Uluru sacred to the Aboriginal (Mala) people?
It is a great tourist destination.
It is connected to the stories of the colonialists.
It provided shelter & was a place of ceremony & significance
It is the centre of a significant dreamtime story.
14
There are important times in different religions. Which of the following are important events?
Rosh Hashana, Boxing day, passover & prayer.
Rosh Hashana, Christmas, Ramadan & Vesak day.
Australia Day, Election day & the 4th July.
Private prayer, mass & the boxing day sales.
15
Spaces, places, times and artifacts are to be treated with profound respect.
True
False
16
What changes were bought about by Vatican II?
Allowed any form of worship
Let women join the Church and become priests
Did away with Eucharist
Allowed Mass to be celebrated in local languages instead of in Latin
17
Sacred stories relate a lie, conveyed by legends, parables and folklore.
False
True
18
What are the aspects common to most religions?
Ethics, spiritual experience, space, time, artefacts
Beliefs, sacred stories, places, texts, rituals, symbols
all of the above
19
Religion can be defined as...
a set of belief and practices
all of the mentioned answers
beliefs and practices that people live their life by
an acknowledgement of a divine or higher being or power
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A sacred story could be a parable such as...
The parable of the found son.
The parable of the rocky ground.
The parable of the bad samaritan
The parable of the prodigal son.
