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Church History with your instructor, Mr. Jim Homan
Chapter 1 Review Questions

Directions: Answer all questions in complete sentences using the question in the answer.  Ten percent will be deducted from your grade if you do not follow these instructions.  Bold the answers so they are easy to distinguish from the questions.  Start your answer one line down from the question.

1. Explain at least 2 reasons why it is important for us to have a sense of our own personal history.

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2. List two changes in Catholic church practices that occurred in the 1960s and were rooted in the early history of the church.

3. How is studying church history like building a friendship?

4. What does it mean to say that ultimately the church is a mystery?

5. How can using the six models of the church help us appreciate what the church is?

6. List the six models of the church and describe each one briefly in a sentence of at least 15 words.

7. Write down the name of a friend with at least five significant pieces of information you know about this person.

8. Referring to the friend in #7…How important has it been to building your friendship to have this information about your friend.  (Write at least 35 words—put the number of words you wrote in parenthesis after the paragraph.)

Complete 9 through 11 the following by writing at least 15 words for each…

9. Today, I can be the mouth of Christ by…

10. I can be the hands of Christ by…

11. I can be the eyes of Christ by…

12. I can be the ears of Christ when I…

13. Imagine that someone who was unfamiliar with the Catholic Church witnessed our first all-school mass.  What sort of remarks do you think the person would make about the experience?  Describe ways in which the person might be able to perceive the Body of Christ from our school liturgy.  (At least 50 words--put the number of words you wrote in parenthesis after the paragraph.)

14. Television acts as a herald, proclaiming a message repeatedly. What do you think are 3 main messages TV proclaims?  Would you say those messages are good news, bad news, or something else?  (At least 50 words--put the number of words you wrote in parenthesis after the paragraph.)

15. From your own experience or that of someone you know or heard of, describe an incident in which a person had to take difficult consequences for doing what was right or Christ-like. (At least 50 words--put the number of words you wrote in parenthesis after the paragraph.)