Q 01/05

What is the name of Lehi's wife, the mother of Nephi and his brothers?

A) Sherem

B) Abish

C) Isabel

D) Sariah

Answer · why

D) Sariah

She complains bitterly when her sons are gone so long fetching the plates, then testifies that her husband is truly a prophet when they return. Abish ...

Q 02/05

How many books make up the Book of Mormon, from First Nephi through Moroni?

A) Twelve

B) Thirteen

C) Sixteen

D) Fifteen

Answer · why

D) Fifteen

Four of them carry the name Nephi. Third Nephi was still printed as 'III Nephi' in the 1879 edition and only became 'Third Nephi' in 1920.

Q 03/05

Which two older brothers repeatedly threaten Nephi's life on the journey?

A) Sam and Jacob

B) Ishmael and Zoram

C) Jacob and Joseph

D) Laman and Lemuel

Answer · why

D) Laman and Lemuel

During the ocean voyage they tie Nephi up until a storm drives the ship backward and they relent. Nephi is the fourth of six sons.

Q 04/05

Nephi and his brothers return to Jerusalem to obtain what record from a man named Laban?

A) The gold plates

B) The sealed plates

C) The plates of Ether

D) The brass plates

Answer · why

D) The brass plates

Laban rebuffs the brothers twice and seizes the family fortune before Nephi finds him drunk in the street. Nephi's own record says Laban's sword had a...

Q 05/05

Which sentence, spoken by Nephi in 1 Nephi 3:7, is one of the most-quoted lines in the book?

A) Adam fell that men might be, and men are that they might have joy

B) I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded

C) O remember, remember, my son, the words of the Lord

D) Wickedness never was happiness, saith the Lord your God

Answer · why

B) I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded

Nephi says it in reply to his father's request that the sons go back for the plates. The other three phrases all come from later books, two of them fr...