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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. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?
(a) Biology, the solar system.
(b) Geology, biology.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Geology, the solar system.

2. What else pushes evolution to the forefront of public debate in the early 1920s?
(a) Major changes in theological positions of Catholicism.
(b) New fossil discoveries.
(c) World War I veterans enter postgraduate studies.
(d) Major changes in theological positions of Christian Science.

3. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?
(a) All scriptural passages need interpretation.
(b) No scriptural passages need interpretation.
(c) Some scriptural passages need interpretation.
(d) Most scriptural passages need interpretation.

4. What does Bryan do in view of a literal Biblical interpretation and scientific facts when Darrow questions him?
(a) Concedes this critical point.
(b) Maintains his literal Biblical view.
(c) States that scientific assumptions are often disproved.
(d) Refuses to answer some questions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Larson's introduction serves as a preview of the Scopes trial and issues it raises for whom?

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

3. Darrow never specifically asks about what?

4. Greater student numbers plus the growing fundamentalist movement means conservative Christian parents find what is coming into conflict?

5. Larson says the defense strategy of calling a prosecutor to the stand to testify as a hostile witness is what?

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