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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After fleeing Illinois, why did Smith return?
(a) To confess his faults.
(b) To get his family.
(c) He believed he was abandoning his people.
(d) He missed his home.

2. Where is the Nephites' gold supposedly held?
(a) The Dream Mine.
(b) The main church.
(c) Canada.
(d) Salt Lake.

3. After loosing 116 pages of the transcribed text from the gold plates, what was the only way Smith said he could view them again?
(a) If he married Emma Harris.
(b) If he paid Moroni.
(c) If he prayed ten times a day.
(d) If he went to the mountain.

4. Krakauer explains that Dan _____ finished the murders.
(a) Ceremoniously.
(b) Angrily.
(c) Reluctantly.
(d) Calmly.

5. How did Smith convince Emma to support his polygamist marriage?
(a) He told her God would be happy.
(b) He wrote her a poem.
(c) He told her she would be doomed to hell.
(d) He gave her lots of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dan and Ron believed Brenda and Erica's deaths were _______.

2. At the School of the Prophets, what practice did Crossfield attempt to reinstate in his students?

3. What idea of Mormon families was the biggest problem to Debbie Palmer?

4. What was the speculation about why Smith's successor died?

5. According to Krakauer, why is there no proof of Smith's revelation?

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