Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Edward Larson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 151 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Edward Larson
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 In Defense of Individual Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. After the war, the cultural crisis grows worse for fundamentalists and they begin to take what action?
(a) Religious.
(b) Social.
(c) Revolutionary.
(d) Terrorist.

4. Despite its rise, the anti-evolution movement lacks a clear, specific legal or political issue until when?
(a) Late 1921.
(b) Early 1925.
(c) Late 1923.
(d) Early 1924.

5. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?
(a) The judge terminates the questioning.
(b) Darrow objects and states that he is not finished.
(c) Bryan refuses to leave the witness chair.
(d) Bryan acquiesces to the chief prosecutor's call.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Tennessee's bill passes, the ACLU runs a notice where, seeking a teacher willing to challenge the law?

2. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?

3. After 1923, anti-evolutionists begin focusing on which state for legal action?

4. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?

5. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?

(see the answer key)

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