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NFP Part 1 Exam Questions And Answers
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The three leaves represent - Answer✔the physical, spiritual and intellectual nature of human
beings as they relate in love to one another
The circle with arrows anticipates the menstrual cycle of a woman, with three phases: -
Answer✔1. The Relatively Infertile Time, with increasing blueness (increasing fertility), where
"relative" refers to the varying start of fertile symptoms
2. The Possibly Fertile Time (blue), when intercouse can lead to a pregnancy
3. The Completely Infertile Time,when no ovum is available for impregnation by sperm.
Marriage in the Catholic Church - Answer✔Characterized by self-donation: "I give myself to
you...
Faithfully (mirroring God's love which never quits)
Freely
Totally (to omit fertility from the love you have for your spouse is not to love her/him totally)
Fruitfully (=open to the fertility of the partner-- physical procreativity; but also spiritual
procreativity, where the couple's self-donation extends to raising the children, giving to one's
career, to one's neighbors, etc.)
Moral Intercourse - Answer✔accompanies sexual intercourse and it involves mutual love and
permanence (committed for life)
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Definition of "Natural:" - Answer✔1. No artificial chemicals , as are in oral and injectable
contraceptives
2. Uses knowledge of fertile & infertile times of cycle to achieve or avoid pregnancy
Virtues of Periodic Abstinence: Better Communication - Answer✔"If a couple can communicate
about their desires to have sex and why they would not, they can communicate about
anything."
Virtues of Periodic Abstinence: Enhanced Intimacy - Answer✔Knowing when the infertile time
begins allows couples to plan a special romantic setting. This is especially valuable for people
with busy schedules
Virtues of Periodic Abstinence: Self Mastery - Answer✔Although media like to promote the
notion that we—and especially men-- should give in to our sexual fantasies, we have managed
to control hunger and smoking impulses in our culture. So through communication and care for
our partner we can manage our sexual desires as well
Virtues of Periodic Abstinence: Mutual Respect - Answer✔One's partner should not be treated
as an object, especially as a sexual object. One of the virtuous results of communication
Virtues of Periodic Abstinence: Continued Enthusiasm - Answer✔The period of abstinence is
like an engagement period, so that the time decided upon for sexual intimacy is like a
honeymoon. Sex available anytime can become routine.
What is NFP? - Answer✔Natural Family Planning uses the knowledge of fertile and infertile
times to achieve or avoid pregnancy.
- NFP uses no artificial contraceptives
- Requires abstinence, not having intercourse, during the fertile time. If your intention is to
avoid a pregnancy, you abstain from intercourse then.
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NFP Part 1 Exam Questions And Answers
|Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass.
The three leaves represent - Answer✔the physical, spiritual and intellectual nature of human
beings as they relate in love to one another
The circle with arrows anticipates the menstrual cycle of a woman, with three phases: -
Answer✔1. The Relatively Infertile Time, with increasing blueness (increasing fertility), where
"relative" refers to the varying start of fertile symptoms
2. The Possibly Fertile Time (blue), when intercouse can lead to a pregnancy
3. The Completely Infertile Time,when no ovum is available for impregnation by sperm.
Marriage in the Catholic Church - Answer✔Characterized by self-donation: "I give myself to
you...
Faithfully (mirroring God's love which never quits)
Freely
Totally (to omit fertility from the love you have for your spouse is not to love her/him totally)
Fruitfully (=open to the fertility of the partner-- physical procreativity; but also spiritual
procreativity, where the couple's self-donation extends to raising the children, giving to one's
career, to one's neighbors, etc.)
Moral Intercourse - Answer✔accompanies sexual intercourse and it involves mutual love and
permanence (committed for life)
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Definition of "Natural:" - Answer✔1. No artificial chemicals , as are in oral and injectable
contraceptives
2. Uses knowledge of fertile & infertile times of cycle to achieve or avoid pregnancy
Virtues of Periodic Abstinence: Better Communication - Answer✔"If a couple can communicate
about their desires to have sex and why they would not, they can communicate about
anything."
Virtues of Periodic Abstinence: Enhanced Intimacy - Answer✔Knowing when the infertile time
begins allows couples to plan a special romantic setting. This is especially valuable for people
with busy schedules
Virtues of Periodic Abstinence: Self Mastery - Answer✔Although media like to promote the
notion that we—and especially men-- should give in to our sexual fantasies, we have managed
to control hunger and smoking impulses in our culture. So through communication and care for
our partner we can manage our sexual desires as well
Virtues of Periodic Abstinence: Mutual Respect - Answer✔One's partner should not be treated
as an object, especially as a sexual object. One of the virtuous results of communication
Virtues of Periodic Abstinence: Continued Enthusiasm - Answer✔The period of abstinence is
like an engagement period, so that the time decided upon for sexual intimacy is like a
honeymoon. Sex available anytime can become routine.
What is NFP? - Answer✔Natural Family Planning uses the knowledge of fertile and infertile
times to achieve or avoid pregnancy.
- NFP uses no artificial contraceptives
- Requires abstinence, not having intercourse, during the fertile time. If your intention is to
avoid a pregnancy, you abstain from intercourse then.
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