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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the result of Robert Crossfield's revelation?
(a) He was promoted.
(b) Many people left the church.
(c) He was excommunicated.
(d) He was killed.

2. According to Krakauer, why is it difficult for young girls to break away from abusive marriages in fundamentalist communities?
(a) There is strict security in the communities.
(b) The police are also polygamists.
(c) The girls are raised to comply.
(d) The girls are very attached to their families.

3. Why were people drawn to Joseph Smith?
(a) His creativity.
(b) His worldliness.
(c) His wealth.
(d) His charisma.

4. How did non-Mormons feel about the beliefs printed in the Book of Mormon?
(a) Offended.
(b) Elated.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Interested.

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

6. How was sex regulated in fundamentalist Mormon communities?
(a) It could only happen if a woman was ovulating.
(b) It could only happen on every anniversary.
(c) It could only happen once a week.
(d) It could only happen when one was selected from the lottery.

7. Why did Rockwell try to kill Missouri's governor?
(a) Rockwell wanted to be governor.
(b) To free his people.
(c) Rockwell was crazy.
(d) To fulfill Smith's prophecy.

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

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

10. What does Krakuer explain is his larger objective in the story of the Laffertys?
(a) To discuss he closeness of brothers.
(b) To discuss the evolution of religion.
(c) To discuss the necessity of religion.
(d) To discuss crime committed in the name of God.

11. Why did the gold plates vanish the first time they were presented to Smith?
(a) He looked at them before he was instructed to do so.
(b) There was a time limit on them.
(c) Moroni didn't show him the right ones.
(d) He couldn't understand them.

12. What is the key difference Krakauer cites between the Bible and the Book of Mormon?
(a) Mormonism is much younger.
(b) The angels discussed are different.
(c) The Bible is accepted as fact.
(d) The books cite different eras.

13. Why, according to Krakauer, is it difficult for Mormon's to paint a flaw-free picture of Smith?
(a) They see his human qualities.
(b) The religion is so young.
(c) He was very flawed.
(d) They're not good liars.

14. Why was Law unable to press charges against Smith?
(a) There was no court system.
(b) Law had his fair share of bad deeds.
(c) Smith controlled the courts.
(d) Law wasn't a very good lawyer.

15. Mormons attacked the Missourians after an _______ Missourian beat a Mormon man.
(a) Irate.
(b) Intoxicated.
(c) Uneducated.
(d) Insane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Missourians disliked that the Mormons came into their state with an attitude of _______.

2. After the Edmunds Tucker Act of 1887, what did fundamentalist believe a new prophet would bring?

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

4. Krakauer uses direct quotes from the _____________.

5. What did Emma threaten Smith with to get him to stop marrying more women?

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