Q 01/05

Joseph Smith founded the movement during which period of American religious revival?

A) Second Great Awakening

B) First Great Awakening

C) Third Great Awakening

D) The Azusa Street Revival

Answer · why

A) Second Great Awakening

Second Great Awakening. Rival preachers competing for converts around his home in western New York left the teenage Smith troubled over which denomina...

Q 02/05

In which US state was Joseph Smith born in 1805?

A) Massachusetts

B) Vermont

C) New Hampshire

D) Pennsylvania

Answer · why

B) Vermont

Vermont. A run of failed harvests drove his family west to Palmyra, New York, in 1816; Brigham Young was born in Vermont too.

Q 03/05

In his First Vision at age 14, Joseph Smith said God told him to do what?

A) Become a Methodist preacher

B) Translate the Bible anew

C) Lead believers west

D) Join none of the churches

Answer · why

D) Join none of the churches

Join none of the churches. He said he had gone into the woods to pray over which sect was right and was told that all of them had strayed from the tru...

Q 04/05

Witnesses said Joseph Smith dictated the Book of Mormon while looking at a seer stone placed in what?

A) A bowl

B) A hat

C) A box

D) A basket

Answer · why

B) A hat

A hat. He pressed his face into it to shut out the light and spoke the words aloud to a scribe, rather than reading directly from the plates.

Q 05/05

Latter-day Saints call the New York hill where Smith said he dug up the golden plates by what name?

A) Cumorah

B) Zarahemla

C) Kolob

D) Moriah

Answer · why

A) Cumorah

Cumorah. Smith said he was turned away on his first visit and had to come back to the hill on the same September day each year for four years before h...