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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. Darrow seeks an early ruling on whether scientific experts may testify, and the judge says he will hear the issue when?
(a) Following Wednesday (15th).
(b) Following Monday (13th).
(c) Sometime next week.
(d) Following Tuesday (14th).

2. When Tennessee's bill passes, the ACLU runs a notice where, seeking a teacher willing to challenge the law?
(a) Nashville Tribune.
(b) Memphis Flyer.
(c) Knoxville Journal.
(d) Chattanooga Times.

3. Larson shows that how many theories of evolutionary development fit nicely within a Christian explanation of the world?
(a) Some.
(b) Nearly all.
(c) Virtually none.
(d) Most.

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 both biblical accounts and evolution must be taught..
(c) Plans to show that the text Scopes uses teaching evolution has official approval.
(d) Plans to show different interpretations of biblical passages.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Because of the high publicity, how do the potential jurors feel?

4. What is one ACLU concern with Darrow?

5. Offering to move the trial up, the presiding judge seeks to do what?

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