Lent Quiz

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Lent Quiz Questions

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 Questions with 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 2013

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God – Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Epiphany – Sunday, January 6, 2013
Ash Wednesday – Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Palm Sunday – Sunday, March 24, 2013
Holy Thursday – Thursday, March 28, 2013
Good Friday – Friday, March 29, 2013
Holy Saturday – Saturday, March 30, 2013
Easter Sunday – Sunday, March 31, 2013
Divine Mercy Sunday – Sunday, April 7, 2013
Ascension of Jesus – Thursday, May 9, 2013
Pentecost Sunday – Sunday, May 19, 2013
Trinity Sunday – Sunday, May 26, 2013
Corpus Christi – Thursday, May 30, 2013; transferred to Sunday, June 2, 2013
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Thursday, August 15, 2013
All Saints Day – Friday, November 1, 2013
First Sunday of Advent – Sunday, December 1, 2013
Immaculate Conception – Sunday, December 8, 2013
Christmas – Wednesday, December 25, 2013