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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 1 Digging Up Controversy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Darrow defends John Scopes for violating which laws, saying evolution cannot be taught in public schools?
(a) Municipal.
(b) State.
(c) County.
(d) Federal.

2. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?
(a) Texts include more revolutionary theory.
(b) Texts include more political science.
(c) Texts include evolutionary theory.
(d) Texts include more modern history.

3. The combination of what laws result in more students remaining in school beyond the elementary level?
(a) Labor union, compulsory education.
(b) Child labor, compulsory education.
(c) Compulsory education, apprentice.
(d) Child labor, labor union.

4. As it makes its way into the press, papers proclaim the Piltdown skull proves whose theory of evolution?
(a) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Charles Dawson.
(d) Charles Darwin.

5. Greater student numbers plus the growing fundamentalist movement means conservative Christian parents find what is coming into conflict?
(a) Children's faith, education.
(b) Parents' faith, children's beliefs.
(c) Parents' education, faith.
(d) Parents' faith, children's education.

Short Answer Questions

1. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?

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

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

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

5. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?

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