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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the bank the leadership of the Church tried to organize?

2. In what year was Joseph Smith allowed to take the plates home?

3. Joseph's mother's name was what?

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

5. As Joseph Smith grew up, he often spent time helping his family to survive by searching for what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Zion's camp?

5. Describe the vision Joseph Smith had in the grove of trees.

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

7. How did most revelations come to Joseph Smith?

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

9. What made Joseph and his church resettle in Ohio?

10. How was the Telestial Kingdom of Heaven described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the importance of the apostates? Pick two of the three apostates or non-believers below and explain how they influenced events in the church. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

1) Mrs. Harris.

2) John C. Bennet.

3) Symonds Ryder.

Essay Topic 2

What is a theocracy? Using examples from the book to support your answer; discuss how the church in Joseph's time resembled, and did not resemble, a theocracy.

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the differences between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the other churches of that time period? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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