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Practice Test over CSJ Test 2 (Ch 1-3) 2005



True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
 

 1. 

Human dignity has to be earned.
 

 2. 

In some way, each human being reflects God’s glory.
 

 3. 

A Christian view of the human person is that we are fundamentally evil, but capable of doing good.
 

 4. 

Sins of individuals can develop into structures of sin that create unjust societies.
 

 5. 

By saying rights are inviolable we are proclaiming that they cannot be touched because their origin is in God.
 

 6. 

Censorship of pornography violates human rights.
 

 7. 

Human dignity rests on the fact that we are made in God’s image.
 

 8. 

Humans reflect their creator best when they love
 

 9. 

Cesar Chavez was an advocate for the United Social Workers of South America.
 

 10. 

Rights are claims we can make on others and on society to guarantee attaining certain basic minimum conditions to live a full, human life.
 

 11. 

Free will is “the power rooted in reason and will, that helps us perform actions on our own responsibility.”
 

 12. 

The most fundamental human right is the right to make as much money as we want..
 

 13. 

The right to life is rooted in our dignity as human persons made in God’s image and likeness.  All other rights flow from it.
 

 14. 

Cesar Chavez died in 1993 at the age of 66 and more than 40,000 people attended his funeral.
 

 15. 

The quality or state of being worthy, honored, or esteemed is dignity.
 

 16. 

The state or condition of sin into which all genertions of people are born since the time of Adam and Eve’s turning away from God is original sin.
 

 17. 

Peace on Earth (Pacem in Terris) is an important social justice encyclical written by Pope John XXIII in 1963 that lists important human rights.
 

 18. 

Social justice doctrine is the body of church doctrine that applies Jesus’ gospel to our life together, that is, to society, its institutions, and its economic and political structures.
 

 19. 

Legal justice regulates a citizen’s obligations to larger society.
 

 20. 

Commutative justice calls for fairness in exchanges between individuals and private groups.
 

 21. 

Social justice is also known as contributive justice.
 

 22. 

Distributive justice sees to the just distribution of the goods of creation.
 

 23. 

Faith empowers us to believe in God.
 

 24. 

Hope enables us to trust in Christ’s promises.
 

 25. 

Charity is loving God above everything and the neighbor as self.
 

 26. 

Prudence is based entirely on feelings and nothing else.
 

 27. 

Temperance moderates our appetites for pleasure.
 

 28. 

Fortitude gives us the courage to do what is right and true.
 

 29. 

The American view of justice is exactly the same as the biblical view of justice.
 

 30. 

A biblical view of justice emphasize fidelity to God, neighbor, and God’s good earth.
 

 31. 

Pope Leo XIII condemned both Marxism and unbridled capitalism.
 

 32. 

“Doing justice” is an important way to spread the gospel.
 

 33. 

The Second Vatican Council did not address social justice concerns at all.
 

 34. 

Cesar Chavez strongly believed in fighting for justice for Appalachian coal miners and Carolinan tobacco farmers.
 

 35. 

Charity is all you need. We really don’t need justice.
 

 36. 

Jesus reveals God’s justice in his message of compassion.
 

 37. 

Virtue is a firm attitude, stable disposition, and habitual perfection of the intellect and will.
 

 38. 

A covenant is an open-ended contract of love between God and God’s people.
 

 39. 

Rerum Novarum is the seminal social justice encyclical written by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 to address economic and other injustices plaguing the late-19th century world.  It began the church’s social teaching in the modern era.
 

 40. 

The theological virtues are faith, hope and fortitude.
 

 41. 

Our social nature is a reflection of God’s nature as the Blessed Trinity - one divine being in a community of relationships.
 

 42. 

Civil rights’ laws usually violate the principle of subsidiarity.
 

 43. 

Everyone has a duty to participate in society according to his or her position, role, interests, and talents.
 

 44. 

A society is only as strong as its families.
 

 45. 

St. Therese Lisieux was born in 1954.
 

 46. 

St. Therese Lisieux is from Kansas.
 

 47. 

St. Therese Lisieux’s “little way” can teach us how to fight the fight.  We do not necessarily have to perform notorius acts of bravery to be God’s instruments of justice.
 

 48. 

One of the obligations of individuals is to treat each other with disrespect and distain.
 

 49. 

Rerum Novarum, written by Pope Leo XIII, helped eliminate child labor.
 

 50. 

The Principle of Solidarity encourages us to walk through solid objects, such as walls and solid oak doors.
 

Matching
 
 
Match the theme of Catholic social justice teaching with the descriptions below.  Answers may be used once, more than once or not at all.
a.
human dignity
e.
dignity of work and rights of workers
b.
family, community, participation
f.
solidarity
c.
common good
g.
stewardship
d.
option for the poor
h.
subsidiarity
 

 51. 

Social conditions that help us reach our full human potential in common.
 

 52. 

Fair wages and union participation.
 

 53. 

Responsible care for all God’s creation.
 

 54. 

We are social beings made for each other in community.
 

 55. 

We are our sisters’ and brothers’ keepers, solidly one with each other.
 

 56. 

Respect due us because we are made in God’s image and likeness.
 

 57. 

Stresses limited governmental role.
 

 58. 

Responds to the least in our midst, the ones who need love the most.
 
 
Matching: Identify which of the following actions are justice or charity.
a.
charity
b.
justice
 

 59. 

A whole city refusing to buy a pair of running shoes produced by a company which pays its workers unjustly.
 

 60. 

Writing a letter to the editor of a newspaper voicing opposition to abortion.
 

 61. 

Working at a soup kitchen.
 

 62. 

A group devoted to change encouraging others to vote for a bill which increases safety standards in industry.
 

 63. 

Tutoring inner-city children in math.
 

 64. 

Shoveling an elderly neighbor’s driveway after a snowstorm.
 

 65. 

Contacting authorities about criminal activity.
 

 66. 

Picketing a place of business which has racist hiring policies.
 
 
Matching: Answers may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
a.
participation and community
f.
natural law
b.
subsidiarity
g.
charity
c.
common good
h.
prudence
d.
solidarity
i.
temperance
e.
option for the poor
j.
fortitude
 

 67. 

Social charity
 

 68. 

Special consideration for the least in our midst
 

 69. 

Work for justice on the most immediate level
 

 70. 

Involves respect for persons, social well-being, and peace
 

 71. 

Written on the human heart and naturally discovered by human reason
 

 72. 

We discover our humanity by association with others in community.
 

 73. 

Virtue of sharing with others as one
 

 74. 

Aids us in knowing what should be done and what should be avoided
 
 
Matching: Answers may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
a.
society
e.
family
b.
subsidiarity
f.
universal
c.
common good
g.
natural law
d.
Carmelite
h.
solidarity
 

 75. 

The sum of the spiritual, material, and social conditions needed for a person to achieve full human dignity.
 

 76. 

God’s plan written into the way he made things.  The light of understanding infused in us by God, whereby we naturally understand what must be done and what must be avoided.
 

 77. 

A group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them.
 

 78. 

The virtue of social charity friendship, and responsible sharing whereby we recognize our interdependence on others and that we are all brothers and sisters of one family under a loving Father.
 

 79. 

The principle of Catholic teaching that holds that a higher unit of society should not do what a lower unit can do as well (or better).
 

 80. 

St. Therese of Lisieux belonged to this order of nuns.
 

 81. 

The foundational social group.
 

 82. 

The precepts of the natural law are unchangeable, permanent, and applying to all persons, in every society, for all time.
 
 
Matching: Things you can do for the poor
a.
Something proper you can do for the poor
b.
Something you shouldn’t do for the poor.
 

 83. 

Blame them
 

 84. 

Volunteer at a food bank
 

 85. 

Attend services at a church that is poorer than yours
 

 86. 

Tutor at an elementary school in a poor neighborhood
 

 87. 

Make fun of a homeless woman
 

 88. 

Spit on a poor kid
 

 89. 

Conduct a parish clothing drive to give to a shelter
 

 90. 

Ignore then
 
 
Matching: use the answers below for the questions that follow.  You will be indicating whether or not something is a Social Justice Document found on pages 48-49.
a.
Yes, this is a Social Justice Document as described on pages 48-49 of the text.
b.
No, this is not a Social Justice Document as described on pages 48-49 of the text.
 

 91. 

1899 Pius XXIIIV--Onay Ocumentday Erehay
 

 92. 

1891 Leo XIII--Rerum Novarum
 

 93. 

1991 John Paul II--On Social Concern
 

 94. 

1943 Pius IIX--Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
 

 95. 

1963 John XXIII--Peace on Earth (Pacem in Terris)
 

 96. 

1986 US Bishops--Economic Justice for All
 

 97. 

1452 Innocent X--Et tu Brute!
 

 98. 

1967 Paul VI--Populorum Progressio
 

 99. 

1842 Leo XXI--Magister Mundi Sum
 

 100. 

1266 James I--Douo Youo Homeworkus
 



 
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