Lesson 1 Quiz
Mark Each Question True (T) or False (F)
1. | Happiness in marriage comes automatically, without need for preparation. | |
2. | The best sources of accurate information on marriage are movies, TV, comic books and love magazines. | |
3. | Unhappy marriages seem to be more numerous than happy ones. | |
4. | Experience teaches that marriage leads to unhappiness. | |
5. | Failure to obtain adequate information beforehand concerning married life leads to problems after marriage. | |
6. | Sexual experience before marriage is a good preparation for a happy married life. | |
7. | Boys and girls should start courtship in their early teens. | |
8. | Love is just a thrilling amusement. | |
9. | "Going steady" in the early and middle teens is neither wise nor necessary | |
10. | Philandering (flirting) is apt to make a person incapable of real love. | |
11. | Serious preparation for marriage means preparing mostly for the wedding day itself. | |
12. | Children of large families are physically and mentally inferior. | |
13. | It is possible for married people to be faithful to each other for life. | |
14. | A person who has had a number of "affairs" before marriage is the one most likely to settle down to just one person after he marries. | |
15. | The priest has a vital role to play in anything concerning the Sacrament of Matrimony, both before and after the wedding. | |
16. | Catholic moral laws concerning marriage are impossible to practise. | |
17. | The Church's teaching is the source of true happiness in marriage. | |
18. | Happy marriages are exempt from difficulties. | |
19. | Physical beauty is all a man should require of a woman in order to be happily married. | |
20. | God has no interest in the development of love between a married couple. | |
21. | True love between husband and wife does not include sexual love. | |
22. | Happiness in marriage rests more on the friendship between husband and wife than on their physical love. | |
23. | Supernatural love between husband and wife establishes their marriage on an unshakable divine foundation. | |
24. | In marriage, each should put one's own self-interest first. | |
25. | True love should make me ready to accept any sacrifice for the one I love. | |
26. | Supernatural love raises the Christian couple to a higher and fuller life. | |
27. | The main purpose of courtship is to have a "steady date" always available. | |
28. | The main purpose of courtship is to know each other better in view of a possible future marriage. | |
29. | Even if marriage is definitely impossible, courtship may be continued for the pleasure it offers. | |
30. | An engagement implies a promise to marry in the near future. | |
31. | Christian marriage provides special graces for the couple to perform their duties as husband and wife and as heads of their family. | |
32. | Really serious difficulties are never encountered in Christian homes. | |
33. | Meeting difficulties together helps a couple to strengthen the bonds of their marriage. | |
34. | In entering marriage, one must be prepared "to give rather than to receive". | |
35. | Sexual relations are necessary to partnership in the creative work of God in marriage. | |
36. | If performed in the state of grace and out of love for God, the marriage is meritorious. | |
37. | The child is the living image of its parents' mutual love. | |
38. | Children are one of the greatest sources of happiness in married life. | |
39. | True love in marriage fosters the desire for children. | |
40. | The task of training their children's character is an unrewarding one for their parents. | |
41. | The satisfaction of having trained their children well will be the reward for the sacrifices made by parents. | |
42. | Once the wedding ceremony is over, the sacramental grace is no longer available. | |
43. | Christian married couples must often, through prayer, call upon the grace that is available to them through their Sacrament of Matrimony. | |
44. | Christian marriage demands sacrifices and therefore cannot lead to true happiness. | |
45. | Just reading the text of this course is enough to bring us happiness in marriage. | |
46. | The period of preparation for marriage should be marked by prayer, frequent reception of the Sacraments and constant efforts to practice virtue. | |
47. | It is not the priest's duty to determine whether young people contemplating marriage are sufficiently prepared for that state of life. | |
48. | Christian marriage is a lifetime union. | |
49. | Catholic Action has contributed nothing to the problem of adequately preparing young people for marriage. | |
50. | The encyclical letter on Christian Marriage makes it a strict duty for the laity to help others in preparing for marriage. |