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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the most emotionally difficult aspect of the trial for Brenda's family?
(a) Reading her journals.
(b) Facing Allen.
(c) Fearing an innocent verdict.
(d) Seeing Ron.

2. When did Brenda realize that the Laffertys were religious fanatics?
(a) When they tried to burn down her house.
(b) When Allen refused to take their baby to the doctor.
(c) When Allen stopped eating for a month.
(d) When Allen built a shrine in their kitchen.

3. Why did the judge throw out Ron's first conviction?
(a) The judge wanted to see the evidence again.
(b) The judge felt he wasn't mentally competent.
(c) The judge thought he was innocent.
(d) The judge felt the jury was bribed.

4. Why did the attacking Mormons have to send a letter to Young while fighting the Francher group?
(a) The group held out longer than anticipated.
(b) The group offered them a bribe.
(c) There were many women and children.
(d) The group agreed to convert.

5. What were the Mormons' hopes for the outcome of the Civil War?
(a) The Confederacy would win.
(b) Europe would intervene.
(c) They would be rewarded by God.
(d) Both sides would destroy each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who survived the Mountain Meadow Massacre?

2. Why did Ron make the School of the Prophets his entire life?

3. What was the result of Ron's meeting with his brothers?

4. What did vigilantes do after Smith and Hyrum's killers were found innocent?

5. Garner believed Ron's revelation was a result of __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Dan's conviction in carrying out the murders?

2. What caused the split in the LDS?

3. Why was Ron Lafferty hostile to the judge at his trial?

4. Why is Salt Lake City the center for Mormons today?

5. Why was Warren Jeffs unpopular? What were people's predictions of the outcome of his leadership?

6. What was the pivotal plight of the Lafferty brothers that caused the murders?

7. Do Brenda's sisters have any regrets in retrospect? What and why?

8. Why was Dan the more active participant in the murders rather than Ron?

9. How did Taylor's leadership of the LDS contradict his predecessors?

10. How did Brenda realize the truth of the family she married into?

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