THEOLOGY 9A COMPREHENSIVE EXAM ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Literary forms that can be found in the Bible. - ✔✔Prophesy, History, Law, Poetry
✔✔The ________is hidden in the __________, the _________________ is revealed in
the __________________. - ✔✔NT, OT, OT, NT
✔✔Literal Proper - ✔✔The human author's intention for how he wanted his audience to
read the book. This includes the cultural and historical context and they type of
literature.
✔✔Literal Improper - ✔✔The human author employed figures of speech or literary
devices to communicate his intended meaning.
✔✔Allegorical - ✔✔How those things, events, or persons in the literal sense point to
Christ and the Paschal Mystery.
✔✔Moral - ✔✔How the literal sense points to the Christian life in the Church.
✔✔Anagogical - ✔✔How the literal sense points to the Christian heavenly destiny and
the last things.
✔✔Genesis 3:15 - ✔✔Protoevangelium
✔✔A familial bond - ✔✔Covenant
✔✔The Deposit of the Faith is made up of - ✔✔Scripture and Tradition interpreted by
the Church
✔✔The birthday of the Church is - ✔✔Pentecost
✔✔This phrase means "from the chair," which refers to the teaching authority of the
Pope. - ✔✔Ex cathedra
✔✔A meeting of the Apostles to decide how Gentiles should be brought into the
Church? - ✔✔Council of Jerusalem
✔✔A meeting of the pope and bishops of the whole. Their teachings are infallible and
binding. - ✔✔Ecumenical Council
✔✔Which of the following was Jesus' last speech and instructions to the Apostles? -
✔✔The Great Commission
, ✔✔Which of the following means handing down? - ✔✔Tradition
✔✔The commands of the Great Commission - ✔✔Make disciples of ALL NATIONS,
Teach all I have commanded you, I am with you always until the end of the age, Baptize
✔✔The criteria to be considered a Father of the Church - ✔✔Antiquity (ancient)
Orthodoxy (correct teaching) Approval by the Church Sanctity (holiness)
✔✔A Church Father who had personal contact with one of the Apostles - ✔✔Apostolic
Father
✔✔Who are the successors of the Apostles? - ✔✔Bishops
✔✔What is the "pillar and bulwark of the truth"? - ✔✔The Church
✔✔How many Popes have there been in the Church? - ✔✔266
✔✔Times that the Church teaches infallibly - ✔✔The Pope, speaks ex cathedra, The
Bishops, united to the Pope, at an ecumenical council
✔✔How many ecumenical councils have there been in the history of the Church? -
✔✔21
✔✔What is the relationship between Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium? -
✔✔They are very closely related; in fact they cannot be separated from one another
✔✔Critical to our salvation - ✔✔Divine Tradition
✔✔Four main sources of Sacred Tradition? - ✔✔Important events of the Church, like
Councils, Writings of the Church Fathers, The writings of early Christians, The early
liturgies of the Church
✔✔Why should we care about the writings of the Church Fathers? - ✔✔Because they
show us that the Catholic faith is unchanging, Because they show us what Christians
living close to the time of Christ believed
✔✔3 titles/ gifts given to Peter in Matthew 16 - ✔✔Called the "rock"- the foundation of
the Church, Given the "keys to the kingdom"-Jesus' representative on earth, Given the
power to "bind and loose"- speak for Christ
✔✔The Old Testament is irrelevant since Jesus has come - ✔✔False
✔✔The New Testament and the Old Testament are deeply connected. - ✔✔True
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Literary forms that can be found in the Bible. - ✔✔Prophesy, History, Law, Poetry
✔✔The ________is hidden in the __________, the _________________ is revealed in
the __________________. - ✔✔NT, OT, OT, NT
✔✔Literal Proper - ✔✔The human author's intention for how he wanted his audience to
read the book. This includes the cultural and historical context and they type of
literature.
✔✔Literal Improper - ✔✔The human author employed figures of speech or literary
devices to communicate his intended meaning.
✔✔Allegorical - ✔✔How those things, events, or persons in the literal sense point to
Christ and the Paschal Mystery.
✔✔Moral - ✔✔How the literal sense points to the Christian life in the Church.
✔✔Anagogical - ✔✔How the literal sense points to the Christian heavenly destiny and
the last things.
✔✔Genesis 3:15 - ✔✔Protoevangelium
✔✔A familial bond - ✔✔Covenant
✔✔The Deposit of the Faith is made up of - ✔✔Scripture and Tradition interpreted by
the Church
✔✔The birthday of the Church is - ✔✔Pentecost
✔✔This phrase means "from the chair," which refers to the teaching authority of the
Pope. - ✔✔Ex cathedra
✔✔A meeting of the Apostles to decide how Gentiles should be brought into the
Church? - ✔✔Council of Jerusalem
✔✔A meeting of the pope and bishops of the whole. Their teachings are infallible and
binding. - ✔✔Ecumenical Council
✔✔Which of the following was Jesus' last speech and instructions to the Apostles? -
✔✔The Great Commission
, ✔✔Which of the following means handing down? - ✔✔Tradition
✔✔The commands of the Great Commission - ✔✔Make disciples of ALL NATIONS,
Teach all I have commanded you, I am with you always until the end of the age, Baptize
✔✔The criteria to be considered a Father of the Church - ✔✔Antiquity (ancient)
Orthodoxy (correct teaching) Approval by the Church Sanctity (holiness)
✔✔A Church Father who had personal contact with one of the Apostles - ✔✔Apostolic
Father
✔✔Who are the successors of the Apostles? - ✔✔Bishops
✔✔What is the "pillar and bulwark of the truth"? - ✔✔The Church
✔✔How many Popes have there been in the Church? - ✔✔266
✔✔Times that the Church teaches infallibly - ✔✔The Pope, speaks ex cathedra, The
Bishops, united to the Pope, at an ecumenical council
✔✔How many ecumenical councils have there been in the history of the Church? -
✔✔21
✔✔What is the relationship between Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium? -
✔✔They are very closely related; in fact they cannot be separated from one another
✔✔Critical to our salvation - ✔✔Divine Tradition
✔✔Four main sources of Sacred Tradition? - ✔✔Important events of the Church, like
Councils, Writings of the Church Fathers, The writings of early Christians, The early
liturgies of the Church
✔✔Why should we care about the writings of the Church Fathers? - ✔✔Because they
show us that the Catholic faith is unchanging, Because they show us what Christians
living close to the time of Christ believed
✔✔3 titles/ gifts given to Peter in Matthew 16 - ✔✔Called the "rock"- the foundation of
the Church, Given the "keys to the kingdom"-Jesus' representative on earth, Given the
power to "bind and loose"- speak for Christ
✔✔The Old Testament is irrelevant since Jesus has come - ✔✔False
✔✔The New Testament and the Old Testament are deeply connected. - ✔✔True
