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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. What did Joseph use to pay off creditors in the 1830's?
(a) Gifts to the church.
(b) Tithings.
(c) Gold he found.
(d) Other credit.

2. What is the name of the priesthood that John the Baptist gave Joseph and Oliver Cowdery?
(a) Aaronic.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Christian.
(d) Melchezidick.

3. When was the Kirtland Temple dedicated?
(a) May 1836.
(b) March 1836.
(c) January 1836.
(d) April 1836.

4. As Joseph Smith grew up, he often spent time helping his family to survive by searching for what?
(a) New jobs.
(b) Ways to earn money.
(c) Lost Indian gold.
(d) Lost local treasures.

5. Who led the children of Israel out of bondage and into the wilderness?
(a) Jeremiah.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Moses.
(d) Job.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author assumes that Joseph Smith taught and participated in things that were ______.

2. Emma Smith waited _____ weeks to be baptized after the formation of the church.

3. The Robert Smith family came to Massachusetts in what year?

4. While in Missouri, Joseph Smith dedicated a plot of land for what?

5. What was added to the plaster used to cover the outer walls of the temple to give it a glow?

Short Essay Questions

1. Much of the information the author discovers about Joseph Smith, in his youth, is characterized how?

2. How did the name of the Church change from The Church of Christ?

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

4. What is one of the things the author accuses Joseph Smith of participating in, rather than in being a man of God?

5. What caused Joseph Smith to have a slight limp?

6. What was Emma's description of the plates?

7. How was the Telestial Kingdom of Heaven described?

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. What were the three basic causes for the persecution Mormons suffered in Missouri?

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