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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 9 Retelling the Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Other writers follow Allen's unintentional reconstructions and view the trial as the last stand of what?
(a) Teaching evolution in schools
(b) Darwin's theory of evolution.
(c) Christian fundamentalism.
(d) Darrow's defense of Scopes.

2. Larson presents the leading players, Darrow and Bryan, and provides a sense of what between them?
(a) Antagonism, tension.
(b) Respect, courtesy.
(c) Respect, professionalism.
(d) Tension, professionalism.

3. Both sides use the media in attempts to throw off the other. How?
(a) Keeping quiet or broadcasting everything possible.
(b) Keeping quiet or broadcasting virtually all falsely.
(c) Both sides broadcasting as much as possible to confuse.
(d) Both sides broadcasting much falsely to confuse.

4. Why is Darrow's rebuttal critical when the prosecution argues that the majority should be able to decide what is taught?
(a) Plans to forego closing argument, cutting out prosecution's plans.
(b) Plans to show different interpretations of biblical passages.
(c) Plans to show that the text Scopes uses teaching evolution has official approval.
(d) Plans to show both biblical accounts and evolution must be taught..

5. Who, at the time, sees the trial as a clear-cut victory for the defense or the prosecution?
(a) No one.
(b) Scopes.
(c) Rappleyea.
(d) Darrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the same grand jury that convened several months prior now returning?

2. How soon does Bryan die after the trial ends?

3. Because of the shape and size of the Piltdown skull, scientists at that time believe it is a what?

4. Prosecutors open by briefly arguing that Scopes violates the law by teaching that humans evolve from other life forms and what?

5. What is Bryan's view regarding World War I?

(see the answer key)

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