Q 01/05

Roughly how many people made the pioneer journey to the Salt Lake Valley?

A) About 70,000

B) About 7,000

C) About 25,000

D) About 40,000

Answer · why

A) About 70,000

Advance parties left in March 1846; the organized wagon trains began in earnest in April 1847.

Q 02/05

Which country governed the Salt Lake Valley when the exodus was planned in 1846?

A) The United States

B) Mexico

C) Spain

D) Great Britain

Answer · why

B) Mexico

The valley only became US territory with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.

Q 03/05

The Mormon Exodus is conventionally said to have ended with what 1869 event?

A) Utah's admission as a state

B) The Edmunds anti-polygamy law

C) The transcontinental railroad

D) The end of the Utah War

Answer · why

C) The transcontinental railroad

Those who came by rail afterwards are not usually counted as pioneers.

Q 04/05

From which Illinois city did the Saints depart in 1846?

A) Carthage

B) Quincy

C) Springfield

D) Nauvoo

Answer · why

D) Nauvoo

Mobs burned the city's temple in 1848, two years after the exodus began.

Q 05/05

Where were Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon imprisoned after the 1838 Missouri conflict?

A) Liberty

B) Carthage

C) Independence

D) Far West

Answer · why

A) Liberty

Rigdon got out on habeas corpus and rejoined the refugees in Illinois in 1839.