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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. Joseph hid for how long from the sheriff when accused of attempting to murder Governor Boggs?
(a) Seven months.
(b) Six months.
(c) Four months.
(d) Five months.

2. What was the name of the General who refused to shoot his Mormon prisoners?
(a) Dexter.
(b) Doniphin.
(c) Lewis.
(d) Lucas.

3. Ms. Brodie assumes that the endowment is what type of rite?
(a) Fertility.
(b) Secret.
(c) Sacred.
(d) Polygamous.

4. Before celestial marriage was introduced, individuals would live _______ after death, for eternity.
(a) With their parents.
(b) Together.
(c) Alone.
(d) In heaven.

5. In what year did Mormons try to vote in Daviess County for the first time?
(a) 1835.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1838.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which paper published an obituary declaring that though Joseph was gone, his murder may give strength to the sect?

2. Five months after the death of Joseph Smith, Emma gave birth to a boy named what?

3. Where is the endowment ceremony currently practiced?

4. Who was the attorney for the Mormons when they were tried after being arrested in Far West?

5. Which judge said that Missouri could not extradite an Illinois citizen for a crime, which if committed, was committed in Illinois?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Bennett use the first 50 pages of his book for?

2. What was the purpose of plural marriage?

3. What was the prophecy that Joseph Smith made in the spring of 1841?

4. What did the New York Herald say in its obituary about Joseph Smith?

5. Some of the visitors to Nauvoo tried to do what to Joseph?

6. When Joseph Smith gave himself up to Governor Ford in Springfield, what did he spend his time doing?

7. What was the prophecy made, by Joseph, about the stone of Daniel?

8. What happened to anyone who might testify on behalf of Joseph when he was brought in front of Judge King?

9. Why, after the fighting in 1838, were the members asked to gather at Far West?

10. Why did women, after Joseph Smith's death, try to seal themselves to him?

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