World's Toughest Catholic Quiz

[Brother Adam]

That was easy. Try the Franciscan University catechism quiz required to graduate from the program. Now that's the Catholic quiz from hell. I was one of only 7 students in our class to pass it the first time. It is multiple choice and anything from 0 to all 5 or 6 answers can be correct.

[FutureCarmeliteClaire]

I think I did pretty well with 75 of 100, compared to the rest of ya'll! JK.

[Basilisa Marie]

[quote name='Brother Adam' timestamp='1328388721' post='2381002']
That was easy. Try the Franciscan University catechism quiz required to graduate from the program. Now that's the Catholic quiz from hell. I was one of only 7 students in our class to pass it the first time. It is multiple choice and anything from 0 to all 5 or 6 answers can be correct.
[/quote]

And now we all know why you're a Church Scholar.

[EmilyAnn]

Darn, 75%. Those were mean questions. I swear there was one where two of the answers were correct.

[qfnol31]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1328329167' post='2380720']
The reason I got that question is that I always remind myself "anything that can truly be said about Christ's Divine nature can also truly be said about His human nature." Can't recall who said it, but it's a bit of a cheat code that lets me fake my way through a lot of Christological questions.
[/quote]You're thinking of Cyril of Alexandria and the "Communicatio Idiomatum" as it became known. The Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon expounded upon this.

You have to be careful with this principle, though. It's obviously not on account of His divine nature that he was crucified, which is why I think that phrase was pretty much shunned by the Church.

[qfnol31]

Thomas also has a great reply on this: "In God, Person and Nature are really the same; and by reason of this identity the Divine Nature is predicated of the Son of God. Nevertheless, its mode of predication is different; and hence certain things are said of the Son of God which are not said of the DivineNature; thus we say that the Son of God is born, yet we do not say that the Divine Nature is born; as was said in I, 39, 5. So, too, in the mystery of Incarnation we say that the Son of God suffered, yet we do not say that the Divine Nature suffered."

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='qfnol31' timestamp='1328392399' post='2381030']
You're thinking of Cyril of Alexandria and the "Communicatio Idiomatum" as it became known. The Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon expounded upon this.

You have to be careful with this principle, though. It's obviously not on account of His divine nature that he was crucified, which is why I think that phrase was pretty much shunned by the Church.
[/quote]

That CCC passage I quoted summed it up as well as I needed.

[Seven77]

18/20 correct... I missed the one about the Archbishop and the one about mortal sin. I'm with Basilisa, the mortal sin one should be thrown out, or at least fixed--after all, a mortal does cut you off from heaven and there is nothing you can do about it...except go to confession...aw forget it.

[Amppax]

[quote name='Brother Adam' timestamp='1328388721' post='2381002']
That was easy. Try the Franciscan University catechism quiz required to graduate from the program. Now that's the Catholic quiz from hell. I was one of only 7 students in our class to pass it the first time. It is multiple choice and anything from 0 to all 5 or 6 answers can be correct.
[/quote]

This may or may not be the reason I'm not also a Cat major

Edit: its really not, I would've done philosophy before catechetics, but that exam made it an easier decision all around. I may just see if they'll let me take it for fun. I like tests.

Ooph, this theology major did poorly.

Edited February 5, 2012 by Amppax

[Socrates]

Only missed one - about the archbishop.

[Lil Red]

i don't need anything else to make me feel dumber...so I'll just stay in the dunce corner, kthxbai.

[Basilisa Marie]

[quote name='Seven77' timestamp='1328398602' post='2381066']
18/20 correct... I missed the one about the Archbishop and the one about mortal sin. I'm with Basilisa, the mortal sin one should be thrown out, or at least fixed--after all, a mortal does cut you off from heaven and there is nothing you can do about it...except go to confession...aw forget it.
[/quote]

Lol, nice. I chose "none of the above" because I don't think "serious sin" is a good "category" for sin, and it's never been a category in any official capacity.

[Hubertus]

On question 14, I was caught off guard when I answered C and it was counted wrong. [C: Must be received by all Catholic adults at least once a year (This is one of the six precepts of the Church).]

Strange, I guess I just thought there were six since I learned from the Baltimore Catechism. But our CCC lists 5, so I guess I'm just wrong.

[4588686]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1328329362' post='2380721']
CCC 468: After the Council of Chalcedon, some made of Christ's human nature a kind of personal subject. Against them, the fifth ecumenical council, at Constantinople in 553, confessed that "there is but one [i]hypostasis [/i][or person], which is our Lord Jesus Christ, one of the Trinity."Thus everything in Christ's human nature is to be attributed to his divine person as its proper subject, not only his miracles but also his sufferings and even his death: "He who was crucified in the flesh, our Lord Jesus Christ, is true God, Lord of glory, and [i]one of the Holy Trinity"[/i]
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Thank you.

Thank you too, Innocent. I think your post is the other part to the answer. I guess my resistance to that being correct came from imposing an atheistic understanding of death on a Christian question.

Edited February 5, 2012 by Hasan

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Hasan' timestamp='1328419321' post='2381303']
Thank you.
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For whatever reason that was stupidly hard to cut and paste. Something to do with this new forum post code.

[Brother Adam]

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1328401008' post='2381079']
This may or may not be the reason I'm not also a Cat major

Edit: its really not, I would've done philosophy before catechetics, but that exam made it an easier decision all around. I may just see if they'll let me take it for fun. I like tests.

Ooph, this theology major did poorly.
[/quote]

Most people do eventually pass it, usually on their second try.

[Deb]

I scored 100% I thought it was pretty easy, although, some of the wording was meant to trip one up.

[Amppax]

[quote name='Brother Adam' timestamp='1328419385' post='2381305']
Most people do eventually pass it, usually on their second try.
[/quote]

I test really well, I wouldn't worry about it.

I actually know someone who passed it their first time without studying.

[Anastasia13]

Wow, I am disappointed in myself. Too bad I couldn't look stuff up.

[Norseman82]

[quote name='Hubertus' timestamp='1328418802' post='2381294']
On question 14, I was caught off guard when I answered C and it was counted wrong. [C: Must be received by all Catholic adults at least once a year (This is one of the six precepts of the Church).]

Strange, I guess I just thought there were six since I learned from the Baltimore Catechism. But our CCC lists 5, so I guess I'm just wrong.
[/quote]

Yeah, I had to think about that one as well.