Final Exam Required Lessons

Question 1

what three distinct impulses characterize Mormon’s narrative style?

Answer 1

historian, writer, moralist

Question 2

three major narrators in the Book of Mormon

Answer 2

Nephi, Mormon, and Moroni

Question 3

T/ F True or false: A careful look at the text makes it clear that Mormon wrote an intricately interwoven, carefully composed and edited work.

Answer 3

true

Question 4

All of the following are listed as characterizations of Mormon’s style as a historian except ________.

Answer 4

he is concerned about Captain Moroni; he makes sure we see him as an ideal example

Question 5

Which of the following Israelite holy days may have connected with the theme of God as creator and King Benjamin’s presentation of his son as king?

Answer 5

Rosh Hashanah

Question 6

All of the following are mentioned as a possible Israelite holy day that may have served as a backdrop for King Benjamin’s discourse except ________.

Answer 6

passover not mentioned

Mentioned: day of atonement, feast of tabernacles, Rosh Hashanah

Question 7

The center and central focus of King Benjamin’s discourse is

Answer 7

the angel’s declaration regarding the mission of Jesus Christ

Question 8

Which of the following Israelite holy days may have connected with King Benjamin’s people sitting in their tents as they listened to his discourse?

Answer 8

Feast of Tabernacles

Question 9

True or false: The angel appears to give the entire content of Mosiah 3.

Answer 9

TRUE

Question 10

according to the scriptures Jesus quotes form to whom is Israel married?

Answer 10

To God

Question 11

In adapting Isaiah’s talk of a “servant” that is “marred” but then “healed,” Jesus Christ in 3 Nephi suggests that the servant in question is who or what?

Answer 11

Jesus Christ??

Question 12

What critical thing does God confirm in Genesis 22?

Answer 12

the abrahamic covenant

Question 13

What sign does Jesus Christ say he’ll give the people for when the gathering of Israel will take place?

Answer 13

the coming forth of the book of mormon

Question 14

What chapter of Isaiah serves as the first extended focus of Christ’s teachings in 3 Nephi (one he quotes in bits and pieces and rearranges rather than quotes in one solid block)?

Answer 14

Isaiah 52

Question 15

How many women are mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon (including women from the Bible)?

Answer 15

six

Question 16

Why does Jacob say the Lamanites will be spared while the Nephites will not be?

Answer 16

Their husbands love their wives, and their wives love their husbands; and their husbands and their wives love their children. They keep the commandment about family given by the Lord.

Question 17

T/ F True or false: According to Spencer and Berkey, the Book of Mormon may be read as a deliberate and intentional history of one culture’s misconstrual of domesticity, a chronicle of the specific abuses of a people said from the beginning to be driven by a certain violent tendency toward women, related in order to stage a critique of such abuses.

Answer 17

true

Question 18

How does the text of the Book of Mormon work against the idea that it is a misogynistic text? (Mark all that apply.)

Answer 18

through providing critiques of Nephite patriarchy through the prophets Samuel and Jacob
through Jacob’s sermon that tells of God’s great love for His daughters
by including the following scripture: “He inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female” (2 Nephi 26:33)

Question 19

a major reason the Lord commanded Lehi to obtain the plates containing the scriptures was so that

Answer 19

they could preserve the commandments of the Lord for their children

Question 20

Which biblical prophets lived about the same time as (within fifty years of) Lehi and his family? Select all that apply.

Answer 20

Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel

Question 21

According to the Book of Mormon which of the following are true about the scattering and gathering of Israel?

Answer 21

The people would come to the knowlege of the true Messiah their lord and redeemer
after the house of israel should be scattered they should be gathered together again
after the gentiles had received the fulness of the gospel the natural branches of the olive tree or the remnants of the house of Israel should be grafted in
the covenant which the father hath made unto all the people of the house of Israel would be fulfilled

Question 22

which ancient prophet is cited in the Book of Mormon as described in great detail an allegory about the scattering and gathering of Israel

Answer 22

Zenos

Question 23

Hosea uses what image to represent the concept of gathering?

Answer 23

marriage between the people and God

Question 24

T / F

Answer 24

Joseph Smith taught that, “we ought to have the building up of Zion as our greatest object”

Question 25

according to 4th nephi which of the following was one of the characteristics of the Nephite Zion society before it fell?

Answer 25

there was no contention

Question 26

According to 4 Nephi, which of the following was one of the characteristics of the Nephite society after it fell?

Answer 26

there was division into classes

Question 27

The Lord has declared that Zion is a people “of one ________ and one ________.”

Answer 27

heart mind

Question 28

Based upon the pattern established in the Book of Mormon, as well as Elder Holland’s statement, we should not expect Zion to be fully implemented in our dispensation until after ________.

Answer 28

the coming of Jesus Christ