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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 9 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Smith sued by his clients for fraud?
(a) He promised them eternal life.
(b) The treasure was fools gold.
(c) He lied about his identity.
(d) He never found any treasure.

2. How did the modern Mormon Church receive Ron and Dan?
(a) They tried to correct them.
(b) They ignored them.
(c) They rejected them.
(d) They praised them.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Krakuer explain is his larger objective in the story of the Laffertys?

2. What similarities does Krakauer cite between fundamentalist and modern Mormons?

3. Why were the Mormons permitted to settle in Illinois?

4. Whose will did Dan and Ron believe they were carrying out?

5. Joseph Smith was the son of a ______.

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