UCE MOCK EXAMINATIONS 2016

223/1 CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

PAPER 1

Instructions:

Attempt five questions taking one from each section

Duration: 2 ½ hours

SECTION A:
MAN IN CHANGING SOCIETY
1. (a) What reasons can you use to explain the current wave of urban-rural movement?
(b) How did the European Christian missionaries facilitate change in Africa?
2. (a) Explain the problems that have emerged as a result of the changing patterns of work today.
(b) How did the invention of machines during the industrial change patterns of work?

3. (a) What problems have come as a result of use of money in accessing leisure services?
(b) How did the committed Christians of middle ages correct the wrong use of leisure time?

SECTION B:
ORDER AND FREEDOM

4. (a) What reasons can be used to explain the continued survival of mob justice in Uganda?
(b) How did Peter Claver promote justice of slaves?

5. (a) In what ways did Moses act as a guide to the Israelites on their way to Canaan?
(b) What lessons did the apostles learn from Jesus’ way of using authority to serve the people?

6. (a) Why was it hard for the Jews to give their commitment to Jesus as their long awaited
Messiah?
(b) What are the causes of disloyalty in the church today?

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 SECTION C:
LIFE:

7. (a) Give the differences between traditional African and early Christian understanding of
happiness.
(b) Explain occasions that bring happiness to most Ugandans today.

8. (a) What reasons can one give to doubt the idea of life after death today?
(b) As a C.R.E student use the New Testament to clear this kind of belief.

9. (a) Explain the achievements Moses made for the children of Israel.
(b) What problems do some of the people of Uganda face in their attempt to score success today?

SECTION D:
MAN AND WOMAN

10. (a) Explain the kind of family God intended to establish in the Old Testament.
(b) How was a traditional African family a home of joy to the members?

11. (a) Explain the position of a woman in traditional African society.

(b) How has the church improved the status of women in your society?

12. (a) What are the causes of concubinage in our society today?
(b) Why does the church emphasise monogamous type of marriage amongst Christians?

SECTION E:
MAN’S RESPONSE TO GOD THROUGH FAITH AND LOVE

13. (a) Why was worship an important tool in the faith and life of the people of Israel?
(b) Explain the circumstances that called for church reformation towards the end of middle ages.

14. (a) How did the church in middle ages turn to worshiping of objects other than God?
(b) How have the Christians of today followed the same trend?

15. (a) Explain the various ways of living the Christian missionaries found strange in African
societies.
(b) How does Christianity fit very well in the traditional African ways of living?

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