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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 4 Choosing Sides.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

2. Who asks some of Scopes' students to testify against him even though they are reluctant to?
(a) Bryan.
(b) Scopes.
(c) Darrow.
(d) Rappleyea.

3. On May 25, what does the grand jury hear?
(a) Questioning of students by the defense.
(b) Questioning of Scopes by the prosecution.
(c) Only the prosecution's arguments.
(d) Arguments of the prosecution, defense.

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

5. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?
(a) Historians, writers.
(b) Clergy, natural scientists.
(c) Historians, theologians.
(d) Historians, geologists.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1925, the ACLU still seeks a court win, mainly as the first amendment's wording does not necessarily protect freedom of speech at what level?

2. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?

3. Which man, Darrow or Bryan, eventually backs down from the challenges the Scopes trial presents?

4. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?

5. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?

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