Book Of Mormon Quiz Page 2

True / False: Himni was a Nephite missionary, a son of King Mosiah, unbeliever turned believer who became, like his brothers, a great missionary among the Lamanites.

• A.

  True

• B.

  False

This witness said: “These were the days never to be forgotten – to sit under the sound of a voice dictated by the inspiration of heaven, awakened the utmost gratitude of this bosom! Day after day I continued, uninterrupted, to write from his mouth, as he translated with the Urim and Thummim,” – Scribe for most of the Book of Mormon translation process

Carved stone monument containing one of the most complex depictions of the tree of life / world tree ever discovered and one of the earliest in Mesoamerica (300 B.C)

Prophet-hisotrian that abridged the whole of the large plates from the time of Lehi to his own. His plates contained a complete abridgement of the large plates of Nephi

Nephi was commanded by the Lord to begin a second record of his people thirty years after they left Jerusalem. This record was to contain “the more sacred things” in Nephite history including the “ministry of my people and accounts of preaching, revelation, and prophesying. This record consists of 1-2 Nephi, Jacob, Enos, Jarom, and Omni.

Plates kept by Nephi and his descendants that contained a “full account of the history” of the Nephites, including “an account of the reign of the kings, and the wars and contentions of [the] people.” They were passed from king to king from Nephi unit Mosiah, who entrusted them to the prophet Alma. From that time they were kept by the prophets up to and including Mormon. Consist of the books of Lehi, Mosiah, Alma, Helaman, 3-4 Nephi, and Mormon.

A Nephite land in the far north. The land was the place where the people of Jared first landed. It was in this region that Limhi’s people discovered the Jaredite ruins.

Lamanite land where Aaron, Muloki, and Ammah were imprisoned for preaching the word of God. There, they suffered extremes of hunger, thirst, and physical abuse.

A man of great political power – king over all the Lamanites – influenced greatly by the example (and strength of Ammon) and the teaching of Aaron – he was willing to “give away all [his] sins” that he might know God.

Lamanite king over the land of Ishmael, a descendant of Ishmael, and the first Lamanite convert of Ammon.

Lamanite king who made a covenant that Zeniff could occupy the cities and lands of Lehi-Nephi and Shilom. His ulterior motive was to bring Zeniff’s people into bondage that the Lamanites might “glut themselves with the labors of [their] hands."

Name-title (Hebrew, “King of Righteousness”) given to the presiding patriarch of the covenant people around 2000 BC. He was a king, high priest, and keeper of the storehouse of God in the land of Salem (JST Gen. 14:25-40). Also called “Prince of Peace”, he is considered to be a type of the Messiah. Like Enoch cried repentance to a wicked people and by exercising faith and priesthood, he helped them repent and establish peace, eventually being taken up to join Enoch’s city of Zion. Conferred the priesthood on Abraham. Of the prophets before and after him, “none were greater".

Term of respect given to Ammon by one of king Lamoni’s servants after he defeated the Lamanites at the waters of Sebus. Mormon interpreted it as a “powerful or great king” – the term is related to ancient Near Eastern cognates designating “greatness”.

Translator of the Book of Mormon in to English and the first president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Nephite region to which Alma and Amuleck journey after being rejected at Ammonihah. Here they discovered the believers who had been driven out of this land and found refuge. Here they found Zeezrom, a former adversary, on his sickbed, whom they healed and baptized.

Which of these is NOT a part of the Nephite monetary system?

 Prophet who lived after the days of Abraham and whose teachings were apparently included on the plates of brass. He was an ancestor of the Book of Mormon peoples (3 Ne 10:16), message in the Book or Mormon centers on the Messiah – he died a martyr (stoned to death).

 Name by which Joseph Smith identified “the skeletal remains of an ancient warrior” discovered in a burial mound in western Illinois in 1834 during Zion’s Camp march. A white Lamanite, a man of God, a great warrior who served under a widely known leader named Onandagus.

 The standard works or the basic scriptures of the Nephites; contained the Law, a history of God’s dealings with ancient Israel, the prophecies of many of the prophets, down to and including many prophecies of Jeremiah.

A device miraculously provided by the Lord to Lehi and his family which gave diving directions and instructions to them for their travels to the land of promise. A “round ball of curious workmanship” with “two spindles; the one pointed the way wither they should go into the wilderness.” It was a type and shadow of the words of Christ. (Alma 37)

 Prominent inhabitant of Jerusalem, descendant of Joseph, custodian of the Plates of Brass; military leader-a commander of fifty; master of a servant named Zoram.

Servcant of Laban who, after surrendering the plates of brass to a disguised Nephi, was persuaded (by the laying on of hands) to join the group leaving Jerusalem. A “true friend” of Nephi’s. 

 King of Judah who reigned from about 600 B.C. to the fall of Jerusalem in 586 B. C. One surviving son, Mulek, came with a group of people to America at this time.

Resident of Jerusalem (600 B.C.) and father of at least five daughters and two sons; consented to take his family and join with Lehi and his family in the wilderness. Dies in the wilderness and is buried at a place that was called “Nahom.” 

New name given to the ancient patriarch Jacob by the Lord and to his descendants; the name is a general reference of a people that reside in a certain area geographically, possess a unique faith or belief or covenant status with Jehovah, or blood lineage wise are biologically descendants of Jacob. 

Old Testament prophet who ministered in the kingdom of Judah from around 740 B.C. to at least 701 B.C. during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. His was an era of political unrest, war, and apostasy. His is the most quoted prophet in the Book of Mormon, having approximately 35 percent of his OT writings either quoted directly or paraphrased by Nephite prophets. 

  After eight years in the wilderness Lehi and those traveling with him came to this sea (Arabian Sea)-The name Lehi’s company gave this sea is interpreted as “many waters.” (1 Ne 17: 4-5).

Place in the Arabian wilderness where Lehi and his family stopped during their journey. This place was a base camp for hunting expedition to replenish their food supply. It was a four-day journey south-southeast from their first base camp after leaving Jerusalem. In Hebrew the word means “twisting, intertwining.”