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Junior Cycle Religious Education: Understanding of the Divine

How often Understanding of the Divine comes up on the Religious Education papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.

Understanding of the Divine, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Understanding of the Divine.

(a)Belief that there is only one God is called…
  1. Polytheism
  2. Monotheism
  3. Agnosticism
(b)In Hinduism, the Trimurti is made up of which three gods?
  1. Krishna, Arjuna and Ganesh
  2. Rama, Sita and Hanuman
  3. Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva
(c)Which of these religions does NOT centre on worship of a creator God?
  1. Buddhism
  2. Judaism
  3. Islam
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(a) Monotheism

(b) Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva

(c) Buddhism

Your turn: Common Level questions on Understanding of the Divine.

Common Level

Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Not asked
2024Q7
2023Not asked
2022Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Understanding of the Divine questions

Understanding of the Divine, 2 marks

In Islam, tawhid means…

  1. The five daily prayers
  2. The journey to Mecca
  3. The oneness of Allah
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The oneness of Allah

Tawhid is Islam's central belief: Allah is one, unique and has no partners or equals. For this reason Muslims do not make images of Allah or of the Prophet.

Other Religious Education topics

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