Q 01/05

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

A) About 700

B) About 7,000

C) About 70,000

D) About 700,000

Answer · why

C) About 70,000

About 70,000 Latter-day Saints made the trek over two decades, and the first companies broke and planted prairie at way stations in Iowa so those foll...

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

Mexico still claimed the Great Basin, so the Saints were leaving the United States behind, only for the valley to become American soil in 1848, months...

Q 03/05

Historians usually say the Mormon pioneer era ended with the arrival of what?

A) The first telegraph line

B) The Pony Express mail

C) The transcontinental railroad

D) The Overland stagecoach

Answer · why

C) The transcontinental railroad

The transcontinental railroad, completed in 1869, cut a wagon journey of several months to a few days, so converts who came by rail aren't usually cou...

Q 04/05

From which Illinois city did the Saints depart in 1846?

A) Carthage

B) Quincy

C) Peoria

D) Nauvoo

Answer · why

D) Nauvoo

Nauvoo's exodus began in February 1846, months earlier than planned, after church leaders agreed to leave before spring to hold off mob violence.

Q 05/05

In which Missouri town's jail was Joseph Smith held through the winter of 1838–39?

A) Liberty

B) Carthage

C) Independence

D) Far West

Answer · why

A) Liberty

Liberty Jail held Smith for more than four months, until guards taking him to another county for trial that April let him and his companions escape to...