ANSWERS:

1. B – Jesus left the Church as his mystical Body on earth.  Pentecost marks the birth of the Church.

2. A – Sunday is the day of Jesus’ Resurrection and the Christian Sabbath.  Every Sunday is a little Easter and so we gather to celebrate Jesus’ life, death, and Resurrection at Sunday Mass (CCC 2174, 2176, 2192)

3. A

4. A – Mary Magdalene is known as the Apostle to the Apostles, the first evangelist, because she was the first to proclaim the good news of Jesus’ Resurrection. (CCC 641)

5. B – “By death the soul is separated from the body, but in the resurrection God will give incorruptible life to our body, transformed by reunion with our soul.  Just as Christ is risen and lives forever, so all of us will rise on the last day.” (CCC 1016)

6. B – The Paschal candle is lit for Baptisms to symbolise the light of Christ now in the life of the new Christians.  It is also lit for funerals to indicate the deceased is passing over from death to new life with Christ in heaven.

7. A

8. A – Easter Sunday, the “first day of the week” (see Luke 24:1) evokes the story of creation (Genesis 1).  This shows that the Resurrection marked a new beginning, a new covenant and a new creation.

9. C

10. D