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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Dan remember his childhood?
(a) He has no memory of it.
(b) As a happy one.
(c) As a traumatic one.
(d) As an unconventional one.

3. What effect did the strict regulations on sex in fundamentalist communities have, according to Debbie?
(a) People were much more at ease.
(b) People were afraid of their husbands.
(c) Sexual assault was common amongst teens.
(d) Sexual assault was rare and severely punished.

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

5. Joseph Smith was the son of a ______.
(a) Farmer.
(b) Preacher.
(c) Salesman.
(d) Teacher.

6. Krakauer explains that, because of Crossfield, Smith realized the ______ of allowing personal revelations.
(a) Possibility.
(b) Trouble.
(c) Absurdity.
(d) Beauty.

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

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

9. How did Smith convince Emma to support his polygamist marriage?
(a) He wrote her a poem.
(b) He told her God would be happy.
(c) He gave her lots of money.
(d) He told her she would be doomed to hell.

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

11. 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 went to the mountain.
(c) If he married Emma Harris.
(d) If he prayed ten times a day.

12. Smith was given instructions by Moroni, God, and ______.
(a) Jesus.
(b) The seasons.
(c) His mother.
(d) A rock.

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

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

15. What job did Debbie's third husband quit?
(a) Being a writer.
(b) Being a priest.
(c) Being a salesman.
(d) Being a plumber.

Short Answer Questions

1. Krakauer explains that early Mormons believed government law was inferior to __________.

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

3. Dan and Ron believed Brenda and Erica's deaths were _______.

4. What did Smith change in his rules for the Mormon Church because of Crossfield?

5. In his revelation, what does Crossfield claim he was told by God?

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