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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "The gods are among the people," was stated by whom?
(a) A preacher.
(b) A newspaper article.
(c) A priest.
(d) A teacher.

2. What year did the John Mack family arrive in the United States?
(a) 1569.
(b) 1669.
(c) 1696.
(d) 1596.

3. How many pages translated from the plates were stolen or destroyed by Mrs. Harris?
(a) 205.
(b) 116.
(c) 100.
(d) 110.

4. The author, Ms. Brodie, believes that the story of Joseph Smith is what?
(a) A grandiose lie.
(b) Exaggerated.
(c) The truth.
(d) A fact.

5. The three degrees of glories include the Celestial, the Terrestrial and what?
(a) The Telestial.
(b) The Cenestial.
(c) The Cerestial.
(d) The Travestial.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Mormons were forced out of Jackson County, many fled to what County?

2. In what year did African-Americans become eligible to receive the priesthood?

3. How much per month did Joseph earn when he worked with Josiah Stowel?

4. What adjective characterizes the state of church finances in the 1803's?

5. Joseph Smith refused to perform, on demand, what types of thing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one assertion of unbelievers about the Book of Mormon?

2. Why did Joseph's father move the family to Palmyra, New York?

3. How did Ms. Brodie see the Book of Mormon?

4. What was Zion's camp?

5. What are the origins of Joseph Smith's family?

6. What was a dream that Vermont farmers had?

7. How did most revelations come to Joseph Smith?

8. How does Joseph Smith compare the times he lived in to the times of Christ?

9. Though the 1830's were a time of poverty and indebtedness for the people of the church, how does the author characterize the people of the church?

10. After Joseph Smith translated the first 116 pages, what happened to the pages?

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