Unit 11

Although the available fragmentary evidence is debated by scholars, when did Joseph Smith begin the practice of plural marriage (as explained in the Gospel Topics essay)? in Nauvoo, Illinois, when he married Louisa Beaman in Far West, Missouri, when he married Zina Huntington in Fayette, New York, when he married Rhoda Richards in Kirtland, Ohio, when he married Fanny Alger

in Kirtland, Ohio, when he married Fanny Alger

Although the exact number of women Joseph Smith married in his lifetime is debated, according to the Joseph Smith Papers about how many women did Joseph Smith marry? 20 10 40 30

30

According to Dr. Hedges, there are numerous reliable, firsthand, contemporary sources explaining Joseph Smith's practice of plural marriage. True False

False

Which of the following reasons does the LDS.org article on plural marriage NOT list for Joseph Smith's practice of being sealed to women who were already married to other men (polyandry)? Several of the women were married to non-Mormons or former Mormons or were currently in unhappy marriages. The marriages were apparently for eternity only (not for time). Joseph fell in love with these women although they were married to other men. Joseph may have believed that being sealed to women who were already married to other men would comply with the Lord's command to implement plural marriage without requiring him to have normal marriage relationships. The marriages were a way of linking or forming an eternal bond between Joseph's family and others.

Joseph fell in love with these women although they were married to other men.

According to our class discussion, which of the following statements below best describes what "dynastic" sealings are? Sealings that are performed to create polygamous marriages without the knowledge and consent of the first wife. Sealings that are performed when a previously married man marries another woman after his first spouse dies. Sealings that are performed to horizontally link unrelated families together for exaltation. Sealings that link families vertically, from parent to child, as far back as records allow.

Sealings that are performed to horizontally link unrelated families together for exaltation.

What does it mean to have the "more sure word of prophecy"? You have received the temple ordinance of being sealed to a spouse. You are given a calling and set apart to serve faithfully in the Church. You have been sealed up and promised eternal life while in mortality. You have the spirit of prophecy and revelation to testify to the world that Jesus is the risen Christ

You have been sealed up and promised eternal life while in mortality.

According to Doctrine and Covenants 132, which of the following is NOT a reason why the Church practiced polygamy in the 19th century? because God commanded it like He commanded Abraham as part of Joseph Smith's appointment to restore all things to raise up seed unto God and to multiply and replenish the earth because there were more women than men in the Church

because there were more women than men in the Church

What is meant by the scriptural phrase "the new and everlasting covenant of marriage"? legal marriage in strict accordance with governing civil laws marriage between a man and a woman eternal marriage wherein a man and a woman are sealed together for eternity plural marriage wherein a man is sealed to more than one woman

eternal marriage wherein a man and a woman are sealed together for eternity

In Doctrine and Covenants 131, Joseph Smith revealed that those who do not enter the new and everlasting covenant of marriage will not be able to "have an increase" in the next life. According to the context when he taught this, what does the phrase "have an increase" mean? to have children in the celestial glory to grow into a fulness of light and knowledge to progress from kingdom to kingdom to progress and become a king and a priest or a queen and a priestess

to have children in the celestial glory