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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 In Defense of Individual Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?
(a) Impede individual rights, liberties.
(b) Advance individual rights, liberties.
(c) Promote state rights, liberties.
(d) Further federal rights, liberties.

2. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?
(a) Scopes primate trial.
(b) Scopes monkey trial.
(c) Scopes ape trial.
(d) Scopes gorilla trial.

3. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(c) Charles Dawson.
(d) Georges Cuvier.

4. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?
(a) Lutherans.
(b) Christian Scientists.
(c) Roman Catholics.
(d) Fundamentalist Christians.

5. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?
(a) Account of six days is literal rather than symbolic.
(b) Accounts of human life spans of hundreds of years are literal.
(c) Account of only lives on Noah's ark surviving a great flood is literal.
(d) Account of six days is symbolic rather than literal.

Short Answer Questions

1. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?

2. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?

3. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?

4. Paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels the Piltdown skull from a new species from what extinct primate?

5. What position does Bryan previously serve in, but later resign from?

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