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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 did the doctors find about Ron while examining him before his second trial?
(a) He was mentally competent.
(b) He wasn't competent to stand trial.
(c) He had a rare disease.
(d) He was playing mind games.

2. Why did Dianna ask Ron to try to convince his brothers to abandon their new beliefs?
(a) She wanted them to convert to Christianity.
(b) The brothers looked up to him.
(c) She wanted to get him out of the house.
(d) Ron was bored.

3. How was Ron able to convince Dan to help him in his murder plan?
(a) He told Dan it was God's will.
(b) He threatened him.
(c) He paid him.
(d) He told Dan he needed him.

4. How did Ron and Dan look when they left Brenda's house?
(a) Brave.
(b) Tired.
(c) Raving mad.
(d) Covered in blood.

5. What was the Illinois governor's one condition for the cease-fire?
(a) The Mormons had to leave the United States.
(b) The Mormons had to pay them a million dollars.
(c) The Mormons had to apologize.
(d) The Mormons had to repair the damage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the attacking Mormons have to send a letter to Young while fighting the Francher group?

2. What would have been the benefit of Ron using an insanity plea?

3. How did the Mormon Church become bankrupt around the time of Taylor's death?

4. Why did Young choose to settle near the Great Salt Lake?

5. What did John Taylor support?

Short Essay Questions

1. Was there any effort made by Mormons to cover up any Mormon involvement in the Mountain Meadow Massacre?

2. Why was Ron Lafferty's first conviction thrown out?

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

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

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

6. Did Woodruff fall in line with his predecessors' beliefs for the LDS, or did he contradict them? How?

7. How responsible was Allen for Brenda's murder?

8. Why did the Saints join the Confederacy?

9. What caused the split in the LDS?

10. What aided in the apprehension of Dan and Ron Lafferty?

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