Just the Presentation Information
This critically acclaimed author wrote Educated.
Who is Tara Westover
Tara was this many years old when she attended BYU.
What is 17?
The book of Mormon says that this country, founded a good 1,700 years after Christ, is actually the promised land.
What is the United States of America?
Name a state other than Utah that Mormons initially controlled as their territory.
What is Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, Southern California, or New Mexico?
The founder of Mormonism.
Joseph Smith
This memoir examines the story of a ex-Mormon and her journey from being homeschooled in Idaho to such places such as BYU.
What is Educated?
Tara was born and raised here.
What is Clifton Idaho?
Mormons reject this key principle that is central to every other Christian denomination, but instead believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost exist independently. Also the name of the School Nick went to.
What is the Trinity?
Fought in 1941, this battle was the first time America was attacked by a foreign power on its own soil since the War of 1812.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This ancient group of people were said to have traveled and landed in North America where God left gold tablets inscribed with their story and journey for a later prophet to be lead to.
Who are the Jews?
This number is the Lexile Level for Educated.
What is 870?
Tara was a graduate student at this prestigious University.
What is Cambridge?
The golden tablets Joseph Smith found were said to be written in this language, not related to the people that the inscriptions documented, but rather their biblical enslavers.
What is Egyptian?
Halleluiah! This magnificent choir has its roots in Mormonism, and is known for their massive choir and sound.
What is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?
This is another name for Mormon Church.
What is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?
Educated is worth this many points according to Accelerated Reader?
What is 19 points?
This person taught Tara to read.
Who is her brother?
These two heavenly figures appeared to Joseph Smith to tell him all other forms of Christianity were wrong and to start a new religion.
Who is Jesus Christ and God?
This other religious group, sometimes confused with Mormons, also goes door to door asking about your religious beliefs and if you will convert to their nontrinitarian religion.
Who are the Jehovah Witnesses?
This prophet succeeded Joseph Smith and set up his own University.
Who is Brigham Young?
Educated is considered as a this type of book?
What is a memoir?
Tara does not know her birthday because of this reason.
What is because her parents didn't write it down and she had no birth certificate or other documentation?
We know that Native Americans were here before any explorer, but according to Mormons, this group of people arrived first, before even the Indigenous Peoples.
Who are the Israelites?
These are the clouds that can produce thunder, lightning, and are associated with thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Chased across the country due to perceived blasphemy and Mormons being a generally strange, nonconforming, and unliked group of people, they finally settled in Utah where they sought to make their own state named this.
What is Deseret?