Posted by:
Simone Stigmata
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Date: November 09, 2010 09:44PM
Okay, I borrowed this from another site, but I really think it needs a lot of circulation.Take the following quiz to find out how much you really know about him.
How many of these would your average TBM get correct?
QUIZ:
1. How many women did Joseph Smith marry while he was alive besides Emma? A: thirty-two.
2. How many of these women were older than him? A: five
3. How many of these women were in his peer group of 30-40 years of age? A: eight
4. How many of these women were 21-29 years of age when he married them? A: nine
5. How many were less than 20 years of age when he married them? A: eleven
6. How many were already married to other men when he married them? A: five
7. How many of these women filed affidavits stating their marriage to Joseph Smith included sexual intercourse? A: thirteen
8. How old was the youngest girl that he married? A: fourteen
9. What was her name? A: Helen Mar Kimball
10. Her birthday? A: August 28th, 1828
11. The date of her marriage to him? A: May 1843
12. His age on that date? A: thirty-eight
13. Would you let your fourteen year old daughter marry a thirty-eight year old man?
14. What kind of thirty-eight year old man would want to marry a 14 year old girl?
15. Number of references to his wives other than Emma on the JosephSmith.net website sponsored by the LDS Church? A: zero
16. Why zero?
Sources:
FamilySearch.org
Kirtland Temple legal proceedings