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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Crossfield teach his students at the School of the Prophets?
(a) How to rebel against the Latter Day Saints.
(b) How to have personal revelations.
(c) How to reason with politicians.
(d) How to praise God.

2. Why did Dan give up his driver's license and stop paying taxes?
(a) He lost all his money.
(b) He wanted to prove his love for God.
(c) He was living in the wilderness.
(d) He was following the early teachings of Mormon.

3. Fundamentalists believed the government was an entity of _______.
(a) Smith.
(b) Europe.
(c) Satan.
(d) God.

4. Why were people drawn to Joseph Smith?
(a) His worldliness.
(b) His creativity.
(c) His charisma.
(d) His wealth.

5. When did Dan Lafferty's life begin to fall apart?
(a) When his son married a non-Mormon.
(b) When his father died.
(c) When he lost his arm in a car crash.
(d) When he began to follow fundamentalist ideas.

6. According to Krakauer, why was the search for Ruby Jessop less thorough than for Elizabeth Smart?
(a) Ruby ran away.
(b) Ruby's parents told the police not to.
(c) Ruby was born into a polygamist family.
(d) Ruby was poor.

7. Why did fundamentalists see accepting government funds as a virtuous act?
(a) They were doing God's will.
(b) They were helping with its destruction.
(c) They were fueling the economy.
(d) They were being charitable in return.

8. What is the relationship between Ron and Dan Lafferty?
(a) Brothers-in-law.
(b) Brothers.
(c) Father and son.
(d) Cousins.

9. After Smith destroyed Law's printing press, people feared Smith would become a _______ leader.
(a) Tyrannical.
(b) Political.
(c) Great.
(d) Lazy.

10. At the School of the Prophets, what practice did Crossfield attempt to reinstate in his students?
(a) Divorce.
(b) Fasts.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Polygamy.

11. Why did Smith write Section 132?
(a) To give Mormons rights.
(b) To make polygamy only apply to men.
(c) To ensure his offspring would lead after him.
(d) To make the LDS a political party.

12. How was sex regulated in fundamentalist Mormon communities?
(a) It could only happen when one was selected from the lottery.
(b) It could only happen if a woman was ovulating.
(c) It could only happen on every anniversary.
(d) It could only happen once a week.

13. How did Dan remember his childhood?
(a) He has no memory of it.
(b) As an unconventional one.
(c) As a traumatic one.
(d) As a happy one.

14. 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 paid Moroni.
(b) If he married Emma Harris.
(c) If he went to the mountain.
(d) If he prayed ten times a day.

15. Missourians disliked that the Mormons came into their state with an attitude of _______.
(a) Hostility.
(b) Entitlement.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Generosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the murders of Brenda and Erica Lafferty, what was Dan's sentence?

2. How did the modern Mormon Church receive Ron and Dan?

3. Krakauer explains that early Mormons believed government law was inferior to __________.

4. Whose will did Dan and Ron believe they were carrying out?

5. Why were Mormons allowed to settle in Caldwell County?

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