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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information did Allen Lafferty provide which aided Krakauer's description of the murders?
(a) The history of the School of the Prophets.
(b) The motives of his brothers.
(c) The history of his family.
(d) A timeline of the day.

2. How did the modern Mormon Church receive Ron and Dan?
(a) They praised them.
(b) They rejected them.
(c) They ignored them.
(d) They tried to correct them.

3. What idea of Mormon families was the biggest problem to Debbie Palmer?
(a) The low standards of living.
(b) The patriarchy.
(c) The number of children.
(d) The strict rules.

4. After fleeing Illinois, why did Smith return?
(a) To get his family.
(b) He believed he was abandoning his people.
(c) To confess his faults.
(d) He missed his home.

5. What did Smith change in his rules for the Mormon Church because of Crossfield?
(a) Church leaders would receive higher salaries.
(b) Only children of current leaders could lead.
(c) Everyone had to have a background check before being accepted into the church.
(d) Only church leaders could have revelations.

6. Why did fundamentalists see accepting government funds as a virtuous act?
(a) They were being charitable in return.
(b) They were fueling the economy.
(c) They were helping with its destruction.
(d) They were doing God's will.

7. Krakauer explains that early Mormons believed government law was inferior to __________.
(a) Basic human rights.
(b) Smith's law.
(c) God's law.
(d) Natural law.

8. Why were Colorado's efforts to get rid of polygamy stopped?
(a) The governor received a revelation from God.
(b) The Mormons were fueling the economy.
(c) They became distracted by the Civil War.
(d) The public was sympathetic to the polygamist families.

9. Why did Smith write Section 132?
(a) To make the LDS a political party.
(b) To give Mormons rights.
(c) To ensure his offspring would lead after him.
(d) To make polygamy only apply to men.

10. What question does Krakauer claim he will answer in "Under the Banner of Heaven"?
(a) What defines right and wrong.
(b) Whom the Lafferty family represents.
(c) Why these murders happened.
(d) What the meaning of life is.

11. Why were the Mormons permitted to settle in Illinois?
(a) The state was trying to increase its population.
(b) They convinced the governor it was holy.
(c) The state was under Mormon leadership.
(d) They were good farmers and businessmen.

12. Krakauer describes Watson Lafferty as a ________.
(a) Lunatic.
(b) Genius.
(c) Pacifist.
(d) Disciplinarian.

13. Why did Flora Jessop flee her home?
(a) She was being forced into a polygamist marriage.
(b) She was in love with another man.
(c) She wasn't sure she wanted to be Mormon anymore.
(d) She was afraid of her father.

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

15. When Linda was asked about her life with Green, her husband, what did she say?
(a) She wanted another husband.
(b) She was afraid of him.
(c) She wanted him to marry more women.
(d) She wasn't abused.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Smith plead guilty to treason?

2. Why did Dan give up his driver's license and stop paying taxes?

3. After DeLoy was excommunicated, why did the Mormon Church try to sue him?

4. Mormons attacked the Missourians after an _______ Missourian beat a Mormon man.

5. Where is the Nephites' gold supposedly held?

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