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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. What do modernists argue matters regarding the accounts within biblical scriptures?
(a) Understanding; application to people's needs.
(b) Precision; unerring historical accuracy.
(c) Precision; unerring scientific accuracy.
(d) Interpretation; application to children's education.

2. In the 1920s, which denominational leaders stress the divine inspiration of the Bible and its literal interpretation?
(a) Presbyterian, Methodist.
(b) Baptist, Lutheran.
(c) Christian Science, Roman Catholic.
(d) Baptist, Presbyterian.

3. Tennessee outlaws teaching that denies the biblical account of creation, so the defense wants to show what?
(a) Biblical interpretations differ.
(b) Biblical interpretations are inaccurate.
(c) Evolution theory is proven, biblical interpretations differ.
(d) Biblical interpretations, evolution theory are compatible.

4. Tennessee newspapers see the trial as what?
(a) Neither as a loss or a victory for either side.
(b) Both as a loss and a draw for each side.
(c) Both as a draw and a victory for each side.
(d) Both as a loss and a victory for each side.

5. Larson says the defense strategy of calling a prosecutor to the stand to testify as a hostile witness is what?
(a) Clever.
(b) Inevitable.
(c) Twisted.
(d) Smart.

Short Answer Questions

1. The initial bill, calling for a ban on teaching evolution in schools, results in defeat by how many votes in the state's House of Representatives?

2. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?

3. Over a century before the Piltdown skull find, who argues that environmental changes may affect biological makeup, and changes pass down to offspring?

4. The author identifies the timing of the anti-evolution movement of the 1920s is due in part to what?

5. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?

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