This is my fourth year of teaching seminary, and every six months I have made up a multiple choice test for my seminary students from the talks given during the Sunday sessions of General Conference. Here is the test I gave to my students yesterday:
(DISCLAIMER: I made these questions up as I listened to conference. I did not have the printed transcripts for reference. Please forgive me for anything that is not quite accurate. I'm not going to take the time later to go to lds.org and make these questions more perfect. On www.lds.org they usually put up all the audio and text versions of
the talks within a couple of days after Conference, but I wanted to give the test quicker than that.)
Gen Conf Sunday morning and afternoon sessions Oct. 4, 2009
Henry B. Eyring, apostle
On her gravestone, a woman asked for this to be written, ____________
1a. Rest in Peace
1b. I told you I was sick
1c. Please, No Empty Chairs
1d. Dearest Mother
L. Tom Perry, apostle
In building the Manti temple, the carpenters did not know how to design the roof. They had never built a roof before. They decided that they would design ______, and then turn the plans upside down, and they did it and it worked for the roof.
2a. an igloo
2b. a ship
2c. a teepee
2d. a piece of furniture
2e. a wooden box
Bishop H. David Burton, Presiding bishop of the Church
Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly. He talked about many personal traits that we call virtues. Many of these words end with "ity". He called them the "ity" virtues. Name one.
3___________________
Bishop Burton told about 8 yr old Megan, who was told by her piano teacher that she would receive a reward for daily piano practice. The teacher phoned when Megan was not home. Later at her piano lesson Megan took the reward. What was it?
4a. a donut
4b. a dollar
4c. a sticker
4d. a candy bar
4e. ice cream
Ann Dibb- 2nd counselor Young Women presidency
She told about a tragedy that happened in St. Catherine's Ontario, Canada. Some workers fell to their death, while other workers held onto a ________________after the scaffolding collapsed, 125 feet high. They clung onto it for more than an hour until they were rescued. Why didn't the men have on safety equipment? They had it, but they chose not to use it.
5a. a skyscraper
5b. a radio tower
5c. a factory smokestack
5d. a bridge
Sister Dibb said she was thankful for her parents. Who is her father?
6a. Thomas S. Monson
6b. Boyd K. Packer
6c. L. Tom Perry
Russel M. Nelson, apostle
He and his wife were far from home on a different continent. They received word of _______ just minutes after it had happened.
7a. the engagement of one of their grandsons
7b. the birth of a baby to one of their family members
7c. a car accident which happened to a family member
7d. an earthquake which happened in their hometown
7e. a mission call of one of their grandsons
In the middle of the night, Elder Russel M. Nelson had a great idea. He wrote it down. In the morning, he _________.
8a. could not find the paper that he wrote on.
8b. found that his wife had had the same inspiration during the night.
8c. found that he had written on the bed sheet.
8d. discovered he could not read his own writing.
Elder Nelson set apart a stake president. The man's father was not a member of the church. Elder Nelson said to him, "You have a fine son. Someday you will want to be sealed to him. When that time comes, I would be honored to perform that sealing." Ten years passed. Six weeks ago, that father came to visit Elder Nelson. " I am worthy and ready to be sealed to my family." He told how he had lost _______, and after that had received the desire to join the church.
9a. his eyesight
9b. his wife
9c. his leg
9d. his wealth
9e. his hearing
Thomas S. Monson told about a man named Dr. McConnell. Dr. McConnell had a father who was a preacher. Every evening around the dinner table, the father asked each child in turn, _______________________________.
10a. What did you learn today?
10b. Did you finish your chores today?
10c. What did you do for someone else today?
10d. What interesting thing did you see today?
Dr. McConnell has established more than 50 clinics across the USA to help the poor.
A year ago, Pres. Monson was interviewed by the Church News. The reporter asked what Pres. Monson would like the church members to do as a gift for his birthday. He answered, "Find someone who is having a hard time, or is ill, or lonely, and do something for him or her." He later received many, many reports from members who did service in honor of his birthday. A photo was shown of an unusual way of reporting what a Primary did. It was a glass jar full of ________________.
11a. jelly beans
11b. buttons shaped like smiley faces
11c.small colored pieces of paper with kind acts written on them.
11d. warm fuzzies
11e. M&Ms
Jeffrey R. Holland bore his testimony about the Book of Mormon.
He held in his hand the same exact scripture book that:
12a. Joseph Smith had preached from in Nauvoo.
12b. Emma Smith had used in Kirtland.
12c. Hyrum Smith had turned down the page just before his death.
12d. Brigham Young had presented to the U.S. president Zachary Taylor.
Quentin Cook, apostle
When he was a bishop, a widow, Sarah, helped every time Bishop Cook asked for anything in the ward. One day another woman called the bishop. "Save Sarah!". Eighty year old Sarah was:
13a. having a heart attack
13b. having car trouble
13c. up on a ladder cleaning out a neighbor's gutters
13d. baking 100 loaves of bread for a soup kitchen
Brant H. Nielsen of the Seventy
When he went on mission to Finland, the mission president's wife was a native of Finland. During World War II, she had left her hometown. Later it was occupied by Russian troops and became part of the Soviet Union. When Brother Nielsen was on his mission, all the missionaries prayed that her hometown of Wieborg or Wiebory would be opened to missionary work someday. They could see the guard towers on the border of Finland and the Soviet Union.
Thirty two years later, ______________ recieved a mission call to St. Petersburg, Russia, and was assigned to Wieborg or Wiebory.
14a. a young man in his ward
14b. his son
14c. his grandson
14d. his nephew
Dale G. Renlund, of the Seventy
As a doctor, he worked every Sunday at the hospital. If he got done by 2 pm, he could walk home and go with his wife and daughter to church. One day he knew he could get home and attend church, but instead he went slower and got home just after they had left, so he could take a nap. He laid down and_______________________.
15a. dreamed about the spirit world.
15b. was woken up by the dog licking his face.
15c. could not go to sleep, because of feeling guilty.
15d. the fire alarm went off.
Joseph W. Sitati, of the Seventy
He is a native of Africa. Unrighteous traditions of the past are beginning to be broken by church members in Africa. Recently, three of his children were able to be married in temples in Africa, and did not follow the tradition of _________________.
16a. paying a dowry for the bride.
16b. giving gifts to everyone in the village at the time of the wedding.
16c. wearing the immodest traditional dress for weddings.
D. Todd Christofferson, apostle
When he was 5 or 6 yrs. old, he mother caught him doing something wrong, and ended his short "life of crime". What did she catch him doing?
17a. He had stolen a candy bar.
17b. He had vandalized a neighbor's fence.
17c. He had stolen a pumpkin from a neighbor's garden.
17d. He had broken a window of a business.
Thomas S. Monson
He said the song at the beginning of that conference session was his favorite song. The song was:
18a. Have I done any Good in the World Today
18b. We are Sowing
18c. How Great Thou Art
18d. O, Divine Redeemer
Some Bonus questions:
Five temples were announced during the Saturday session. Can you name any of them? (5 pts possible)
(Questions 19-23)
24. One of the apostles is getting old, I think this was his first time to sit down instead of stand up to give his talk. Who was it?
Saturday session:
25. Boyd K. Packer told the story of a little girl who was upset that her brother had set a trap to catch sparrows. She prayed that her brother would not catch any sparrows. She told her mother, "I know that he won't catch any sparrows." "Why?" asked her mother.
The girl answered, "Because _______________________."
(See answers below)
ANSWERS
1c Please, No Empty Chairs
2b a ship
3- could be any like these: humility, charity, civility, fidelity, integrity, ability, dignity, responsibility, generosity, solidarity, etc.
4a. donut
5d. bridge
6a. Thomas S. Monson
7b. birth
8d. could not read his own writing
9e. his hearing
10c. what did you do for somebody else?
11d. warm fuzzies
12c. Hyrum Smith turned down the page
13c. on ladder cleaning gutters
14b. his son
15c. could not go to sleep
16a. paying dowry for bride
17a. stole candy
18d. O Divine Redeemer
19-23 announced temples in Concepcion, Chile; _______, Brazil; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Sapporo, Japan; Brigham City, UT.
24. Boyd K. Packer
25. (I prayed) and then I kicked that trap all to pieces.
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