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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 10 Distant Echoes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. High school texts are rewritten in the wake of the trial, with many doing what?
(a) Taking out or severely limiting discussion of human evolution.
(b) Offering compatibility between evolution, Christian creation.
(c) Affording greater detail to human evolution.
(d) Giving equal space to evolution, anti-evolution.

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

3. Who has already been debating with Bryan for years over the teaching of evolution?
(a) Henry Fairfield Osborn.
(b) J. McKeen Cattell.
(c) Charles B. Davenport.
(d) Ben G. McKenzie.

4. Who, at the time, sees the trial as a clear-cut victory for the defense or the prosecution?
(a) Rappleyea.
(b) Darrow.
(c) Scopes.
(d) No one.

5. What do fundamentalists again turn toward as the efforts over requiring creationism increase?
(a) Increasing legal countermeasures.
(b) Promoting legal status of fundamentalism.
(c) Advancing promotion of creationism.
(d) Developing home, church schooling.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the 1950s, the trial becomes popular among historians and is often shown whose victory?

2. Another ACLU worry, if both Darrow and Bryan work on the trial, is that it would become a clash between what?

3. Through what method does Bryan want to debunk evolution theories?

4. What does the jaw for the Piltdown skull appear to be of?

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

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