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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 9 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Krakauer says he will try to explain the ______ of the Lafferty brothers' murders.
(a) Gravity.
(b) Absurdity.
(c) Circumstances.
(d) Effect.

3. For the murders of Brenda and Erica Lafferty, what was Dan's sentence?
(a) 25 years.
(b) Probation.
(c) The death sentence.
(d) Life in prison.

4. Dan and Ron believed Brenda and Erica's deaths were _______.
(a) Justified.
(b) Tragic.
(c) Inevitable.
(d) Unremarkable.

5. Why did Mormons settle in Missouri?
(a) It wasn't part of the United States at the time.
(b) It was sparsely populated.
(c) It was Smith's birthplace.
(d) They believed the original Garden of Eden was there.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was sex regulated in fundamentalist Mormon communities?

2. How did non-Mormons feel about the beliefs printed in the Book of Mormon?

3. What effect did the Edmunds Tucker Act of 1887 have on the Mormon Church?

4. According to Krakauer, why is there no proof of Smith's revelation?

5. How did Mitchell justify his abduction of Elizabeth Smart?

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