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Leaving Cert Religious Education: Polytheism & monotheism
How often Polytheism & monotheism comes up on the Religious Education papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
HL Asked on 2 of the last 9 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2025.
OL Asked on 7 of the last 9 Ordinary Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years
Quick ones on Polytheism & monotheism.
- All-good, unchanging and free of any passion
- Powerful but with human-like passions and flaws
- Distant and uninterested in human affairs
- Belief that God is everything
- Belief in one God
- Belief in many gods
- Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Judaism, Shinto and Taoism
- Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism
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(a) Powerful but with human-like passions and flaws
(b) Belief in many gods
(c) Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Higher Level
Asked on 2 of the last 9 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2025.
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2025 | A1 |
| 2024 | Not asked |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Not asked |
| 2021 | Not asked |
| 2019 | Not asked |
| 2018 | Not asked |
| 2017 | Not asked |
| 2016 | A1 |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
Ordinary Level
Asked on 7 of the last 9 Ordinary Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2025 | A3 |
| 2024 | A2 |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | A1 |
| 2021 | A2 |
| 2019 | Not asked |
| 2018 | A1 |
| 2017 | A2 |
| 2016 | A2 |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
More Polytheism & monotheism questions
Polytheism & monotheism, 2 marks
Polytheism is belief in...
- One God
- No god
- Many gods
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Many gods
Poly means many and theos means god. The religions of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and Celtic Ireland were polytheistic, with gods for different parts of life.
Polytheism & monotheism, 2 marks
Which three religions are monotheistic?
- Babylonian, Egyptian and Celtic religion
- Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Greek, Roman and Norse religion
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Judaism, Christianity and Islam
All three believe in one God and look back to Abraham. Christians understand the one God as Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Polytheism & monotheism, 2 marks
In Greek myth, who was king of the gods on Mount Olympus?
- Zeus
- Marduk
- Ra
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Zeus
Zeus ruled the Olympian gods as god of the sky and thunder. Marduk was the chief god of Babylon and Ra the Egyptian sun god.