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danboyle
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Date: October 09, 2012 05:28PM
the mormons I showed it too missed most of the answers. btw, if you were born and raised mormon, and still are tbm, the answer key is as follows: "D"
1. How many wives did Joseph Smith have?
A. One
B. Three
C. About 9
D. Over 30
2. How many of Joseph’s wives were teenagers?
A. None
B. Two
C. Five
D. Nine
3. How long was Joseph sleeping with other women before the revelation authorizing polygamy?
A. Zero
B. Just a few months
C. About two years
D. About ten years
4. How many of Joseph’s wives were also currently married to living husbands ?
A. None
B. Two
C. Seven
D. Eleven
5. What was the penalty prescribed by Brigham Young for whites who marry blacks?
A. No penalty
B. Disfellowship
C. Excommunication
D. Death on the spot
6. When would blacks receive the priesthood, according to Brigham Young?
A. Never
B. Sometime during this dispensation
C. After the less-than-valiant ones have all been born
D. Not until Christ returns during the millennium
7. What did Spencer Kimball say about the Lamanite/Indian children he saw in the audience?
A. They were a sign of the faithful accepting the Book of Mormon
B. They were a chosen generation
C. They were blessed to be born in the Latter Days
D. Their skin was turning lighter because they accepted the gospel
8. According to D&C 132, what would happen if Emma did not accept Joseph’s polygamy?
A. She would not receive a fullness of blessings
B. She would not be with Joseph in the celestial kingdom
C. She would not achieve eternal exaltation
D. She would be destroyed
9. According to Joseph Smith’s Lectures on Faith, taught in the School of the Prophets, God the Father is:
A. not comprehensible to our mortal brains
B. a personage with a physical body, as Joseph saw in the first vision
C. one of the three members of the Godhead
D. a personage of spirit, without a physical body
10. As told in the Book of Mormon, the Jaradites crossed the ocean in hand-made wooden boats, and carried animals and all their supplies, food and fresh water, with them, how long was this trip ?
A. about a fortnight, two weeks
B. about one month
C. 88 days
D. just under a year
11. In an interview with Time magazine, and again on Larry King’s show, Gordon B Hinckley was asked if god was once a man, and if men can become gods. He said:
A. yes, that’s the beauty of it
B. yes, it’s one of the unique doctrines restored in the latter days by Joseph Smith
C. yes, although not everyone will achieve it.
D. that’s more of a couplet, we really don’t know much about it I don’t know that we teach it.
12. Both David and Solomon, from the Old Testament, had many wives. Modern scripture says the following about their polygamy:
A. The Book of Mormon, and Pearl of Great Price say it was OK
B. The Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants say it was OK
C. The Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants don’t comment on it
D. The Book of Mormon condemns it, but the Doctrine and Covenants says it was OK.
13. Joseph Smith had himself declared:
A. Prophet
B. General
C. King of the World
D. All of the above
14. Brigham Young taught Christ was conceived through:
A. the Immaculate Conception
B. the power of the Holy Ghost
C. a miracle, that is unexplainable
D. physical relations (sex) between God the Father and Mary
15. When asked if the moon was inhabited, Joseph Smith said:
A. no one knows
B. no, there is no life as we know it on the moon
C. no, it is too hot and desolate.…don’t ask stupid questions
D. yes, the inhabitants are much like us, taller, and dress like Quakers, and live to 1000 years
16. In the D&C, Oliver is complimented for “having the gift of Aaron”. In the original version, this gift was:
A. also called the gift of Aaron
B. not mentioned at all
C. described as “temporary“, and could be lost if not used
D. called the “gift of the Rod“, working with a divining rod to find water
17. Which of the following were prophesies of Joseph Smith?
A. Christ would return sometime between 1890-1891
B. Several of his current apostles would see Christ’s return
C. The US Government would collapse unless it redressed all the wrongs against the mormons
D. All of the above
18. How did Joseph Smith translate the golden plates which became the Book of Mormon?
A. The plates were open, and he used the urim and thummin to translate it, word for word
B. The plates were there, and he used the gift and power of god to translate them, we don’t know much more.
C. The plates were open, after a while he could translate without using the urim and thummin
D. The plates were not used, he put his peep stone in the bottom of his hat, looked in, and dictated the book.
19. When Peter, James and John appeared to Joseph and Oliver to restore the priesthood, Joseph and Oliver immediately:
A. Described the event in their journals that night.
B. Told the church members about this significant event the following Sunday
C. Taught the restoration of the priesthood at the school of the prophets, a few months later
D. Never mentioned it, and didn’t record it in their journals, until several years later when they “back dated” the story
20. Joseph Smith was put in Carthage jail because:
A. He was the leader of the Mormons
B. He preached that those who persecute mormons would be sent to hell
C. He married many women, and was openly a polygamist
D. He ordered the destruction Mr. Law’s printing press after Mr. Law exposed Joseph’s polygamy
21. After the first vision, Joseph Smith joined which church?
A. None, he was commanded not to join any church
B. He joined the Quakers
C. He attended several other churches, but didn’t join any of them
D. He joined the Methodist church
22. Gordon B Hinckley said in General Conference that the church’s entire claim rests on:
A. Belief in Jesus Christ and the atonement
B. The temple ceremony, and its covenants and blessings
C. Modern day revelation and following the prophet
D. The validity of Joseph Smith's vision. It either occurred or it did not occur. If it did not, then this work is a fraud.