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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bryan offers his services to the prosecution in mid-May despite not having been practicing law for how long?
(a) Over 20 years.
(b) Over 25 years.
(c) Over 15 years.
(d) Over 30 years.

2. Futile attempts of the ACLU in cases before Scopes' trial are likely because of what general attitude during and directly after World War I?
(a) Antisocialism, capitalism.
(b) Fundamentalism, patriotism.
(c) Anticommunism, fundamentalism.
(d) Anticommunism, patriotism.

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

4. The scene that the author refers to in his Introduction is said to be reminiscent of what dramatic scenes?
(a) Movie, TV.
(b) Stage, movie.
(c) Stage, TV.
(d) Radio, TV.

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

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

7. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?
(a) Florida.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Oklahoma.

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

9. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?
(a) Scopes monkey trial.
(b) Scopes primate trial.
(c) Scopes gorilla trial.
(d) Scopes ape trial.

10. Larson presents the leading players, Darrow and Bryan, and provides a sense of what between them?
(a) Tension, professionalism.
(b) Antagonism, tension.
(c) Respect, courtesy.
(d) Respect, professionalism.

11. Universities begin incorporating tenure and academic freedom to protect the freedom of what?
(a) Speech, education.
(b) Education, research.
(c) Speech, research.
(d) Religion, speech.

12. The ACLU sees Tennessee's law against teaching evolution as part of a systematic "assault" on personal liberty, starting with limitations when?
(a) World War I.
(b) Spanish-American War.
(c) U.S. Civil War.
(d) Mexican-American War.

13. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?
(a) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Charles Dawson.

14. What does John Randolph Neal do while serving as the primary defense at a preliminary hearing on May 9?
(a) Declines to make a statement.
(b) Readily concedes that Scopes teaches human evolution.
(c) Maintains that the text Scopes uses has school approval.
(d) Maintains that Scopes' teaching does not conflict with biblical accounts.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The combination of what laws result in more students remaining in school beyond the elementary level?

3. Who asks some of Scopes' students to testify against him even though they are reluctant to?

4. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?

5. Darrow never specifically asks about what?

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