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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?
(a) Jesus' inner circle of disciples.
(b) New Testament miracles.
(c) Book of Revelation.
(d) Old Testament miracles.

2. Dayton, between Knoxville and Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley, is in what part of Tennessee?
(a) South.
(b) North.
(c) West.
(d) East.

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

4. When Tennessee's bill passes, the ACLU runs a notice where, seeking a teacher willing to challenge the law?
(a) Nashville Tribune.
(b) Knoxville Journal.
(c) Chattanooga Times.
(d) Memphis Flyer.

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

6. Darrow never specifically asks about what?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Solar system.
(d) Bible.

7. The Introduction focuses on questioning taking place on a wooden platform in what location?
(a) Municiplal Auditorium.
(b) City Hall.
(c) Courthouse lawn.
(d) Courtroom.

8. In defending conscientious objectors and war protesters, National Civil Liberties Bureau activists see that what are not the same?
(a) Majority rule, freedom of education.
(b) Majority rule, freedom of religion.
(c) Majority rule, liberty.
(d) Majority rule, freedom of spech.

9. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?
(a) Further federal rights, liberties.
(b) Impede individual rights, liberties.
(c) Advance individual rights, liberties.
(d) Promote state rights, liberties.

10. Darrow's practice shifts slowly to criminal law where he often seeks to challenge traditional ideologies of what?
(a) Morality, nihilism.
(b) Morality, religion.
(c) Amorality, humanity.
(d) Morality, agnosticism.

11. After defeat of the first bill for a ban on teaching evolution, Bryan argues that who should decide what is taught?
(a) Taxpayers.
(b) School boards.
(c) Parents.
(d) Courts.

12. Another ACLU worry, if both Darrow and Bryan work on the trial, is that it would become a clash between what?
(a) Fundamentalism, modernism.
(b) Religion, anti-religion.
(c) Science, religion.
(d) Liberals, conservatives.

13. Darwin's view of random variations and survival-of-the-fittest pose problems for many Christians holding what view of nature?
(a) Geological.
(b) Teleological.
(c) Physiological.
(d) Biological.

14. Larson's introduction serves as a preview of the Scopes trial and issues it raises for whom?
(a) American society.
(b) School administrators.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Tennessee society.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Dayton is an unlikely choice for the trial, as it is more rural, dwindling in numbers, and what?

3. In the 1920s, which denominational leaders stress the divine inspiration of the Bible and its literal interpretation?

4. The presiding judge wants an indictment as a conservative Christian, feeling a calling from God to officiate, and seeking what?

5. What do modernists argue matters regarding the accounts within biblical scriptures?

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