Q 01/05

On what date did Joseph Smith formally organise the church in western New York?

A) June 27, 1844

B) July 24, 1847

C) December 23, 1805

D) April 6, 1830

Answer · why

D) April 6, 1830

It was first called the Church of Christ; the name Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints came later.

Q 02/05

Joseph Smith was born on 23 December 1805 in which state?

A) Vermont

B) Ohio

C) New York

D) Pennsylvania

Answer · why

A) Vermont

His family moved to Palmyra, New York, where he said he had his First Vision in 1820.

Q 03/05

Joseph Smith said that in 1823 an angel directed him to a buried book made of what?

A) Copper scrolls

B) Carved cedar tablets

C) Golden plates

D) Silver sheets

Answer · why

C) Golden plates

He said he translated them into the Book of Mormon; the angel was Moroni, the last prophet of that book.

Q 04/05

Which angel, now a trumpet-blowing statue atop many temples, did Joseph Smith say guarded the buried record?

A) Nephi

B) Moroni

C) Gabriel

D) Michael

Answer · why

B) Moroni

Cyrus Dallin's statue went up on the Salt Lake Temple in April 1892; a 2020 earthquake knocked the trumpet from its hand.

Q 05/05

Whom did Joseph Smith elope with and marry in January 1827?

A) Lucy Mack

B) Mary Fielding

C) Eliza Snow

D) Emma Hale

Answer · why

D) Emma Hale

He had met her while boarding in Pennsylvania; she later stayed in Nauvoo rather than follow Brigham Young west.