1) Which is the first day of Lent?
a) Ash Wednesday
b) Valentine’s Day
c) Shrove Tuesday
d) Maundy Thursday

2) What is the original meaning of Lent?
a) Autumn
b) Spring
c) Fast
d) Penance

3) Which is the last Sunday of Lent?
a) Easter Sunday
b) Whit Sunday
c) Palm Sunday
d) Pentecost Sunday

4) Lent is said to be of 40 days even though from Ash Wednesday to last Saturday of the season it is 46 days. Why?
a) Sundays are not included
b) Mondays are not included
c) Counting error
d) Saturdays are not included

5) Which feast day always comes during Lent?
a) Annunciation
b) Assumption
c) St. Joseph’s Feast
d) Presentation

6) How ash for Ash Wednesday is made?
a) By burning palms used during previous Palm Sunday
b) By burning logs
c) By burning books
d) By burning clothes

7) On which day is Chrism Mass?
a) Ash Wednesday
b) Maundy Thursday
c) Good Friday
d) Palm Sunday

8) What is special about Good Friday?
a) Day of fast
b) Day of abstinence
c) Day of penance
d) Day when mass is not celebrated

9) Which devotion has special place during Lent?
a) Novena
b) Triduum
c) Stations of the cross
d) Retreat

10) Which of the following does not take place on Good Friday?
a) Intercessory prayers
b) Communion
c) Consecration
d) Veneration of the cross

Lent Quiz Answers

1) Which is the first day of Lent?
a) Ash Wednesday

2) What is the original meaning of Lent?
b) Spring

3) Which is the last Sunday of Lent?
c) Palm Sunday

4) Lent is said to be of 40 days even though from Ash Wednesday to last Saturday of the season it is 46 days. Why?
a) Sundays are not included

5) Which feast day always comes during Lent?
c) St. Joseph’s Feast

6) How ash for Ash Wednesday is made?
a) By burning palms used during previous Palm Sunday

7) On which day is Chrism Mass?
b) Maundy Thursday

8) What is special about Good Friday?
d) Day when mass is not celebrated

9) Which devotion has special place during Lent?
c) Stations of the cross

10) Which of the following does not take place on Good Friday?
c) Consecration

Important Date/Days in Catholic Calendar for the year 2011

Ash Wednesday – March 9, 2011
Palm Sunday – April 17, 2011
Holy Thursday – April 21, 2011
Good Friday – April 22, 2011
Holy Saturday – April 23, 2011
Easter Sunday – April 24, 2011
Divine Mercy Sunday – May 1, 2011
Ascension – June 2, 2011
Pentecost Sunday – June 12, 2011
Trinity Sunday – June 19, 2011
Corpus Christi – Thursday, June 23, 2011 (will be celebrated on June 26, 2011
Assumption of Mary – Monday, August 15, 2011
All Saints Day – Tuesday, November 1, 2011
First Sunday of Advent – November 27, 2011
Immaculate Conception – December 8, 2011
Christmas – December 25, 2011