Unit 4 Test Review

Christian Morality: Our Response to God’s Love

Unit 4 Test Review

Part 1: Short Answer Answer each of the following questions in two or three sentences. 1. What does Jesus teach us about the Fourth Commandment?

2. According to Church teaching, what attitudes are essential for honoring parents?

3. What are two duties that children have toward their parents?

4. What responsibilities do parents have for their children?

Each of the following statements expresses a truth related to the Eighth Commandment. Give a two- or three-sentence explanation about why the statement is true. 5. In public communication, lies and misinformation take on an even greater seriousness.

6. True empathy with other people can break the cycle of harm caused by gossip, slander, or humiliation.

7. Sometimes it is inappropriate to reveal the truth to someone who asks for it.

8. The Eighth Commandment has an important social dimension that should guide the creation and use of public media.

Part 2: True and False Write true or false in the space next to each statement. 1. ______Faith should not have anything to do with our public life.

2. ______The Fourth Commandment requires us to honor and respect those in civil authority, as well as other public groups and organizations.

3. ______Every person and every human society can come to know God’s Law through creation and human reason.

4. ______Only religious organizations are called by God to respect moral order because of their understanding of natural law.

5. ______God calls all leaders to promote and defend the common good through morally acceptable means.

6. ______By participating in public life, Christians show their obedience to the Second Commandment. Unit 4 Test Page | 2 7. ______God’s plan for our salvation is accomplished only through our involvement in religious communities, not through involvement in other public groups or political communities.

8. ______Christ’s call to “live in the world, but not of the world” means that we are to associate only with those people who share our values.

9. ______Christians are called to challenge the values in our society that are contrary to God’s values.

10. ______All public authority, civil and religious, comes from God.

11. ______We owe civil authority our obedience even when it is evident that this obedience is in conflict with God’s moral law.

12. ______The Church discourages solidarity movements, such as the formation of labor unions.

13. ______An important moral principle is that citizens exist for the good of the state.

14. ______States’ laws to protect individuals and properties must be moral laws.

15. ______We are required to live in such a way that we do not deprive others in our own nation and in the world of what they need to live.

Part 3: Vocabulary The following are descriptions of specific sins against the Eighth Commandment. Identify the name of the sin and write it in the blank before its description.

1. ______Telling a false story about someone to harm their reputation

2. ______Detracting from another’s good name, gossiping

3. ______Assuming the worst about something someone says, or doing so without knowing all the facts

4. ______Misuse of flattery, praise, or admiration for another person

5. ______Exaggerating accomplishments to make them seem more praiseworthy

Part 4: Short Essay Please answer the following topics, write a six- to eight-sentence response. Unit 4 Test Page | 3 1. Describe how lies endanger our current happiness and our eternal destiny. 2. Describe the benefits of living an honest life. 3. Describe several ways of strengthening the virtue of personal integrity. 4. Describe why we must make reparation for the harm done by lying. 5. Describe the social implications of creating a web of deceit.