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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bryan hears of the proposal to ban teaching evolution, and as he supports the idea in talks and writing, he does what else?
(a) Addresses the state House of Representatives.
(b) Avoids addressing governmental bodies.
(c) Addresses joint sessions of the state's legislature.
(d) Addresses the state Senate.

3. The combination of what laws result in more students remaining in school beyond the elementary level?
(a) Compulsory education, apprentice.
(b) Child labor, compulsory education.
(c) Labor union, compulsory education.
(d) Child labor, labor union.

4. Over a century before the Piltdown skull find, who argues that environmental changes may affect biological makeup, and changes pass down to offspring?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Charles Dawson.

5. The text Scopes has been using while filling in for the regular biology teacher has what approval?
(a) County.
(b) Municipal.
(c) State.
(d) School board.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?

2. As it makes its way into the press, papers proclaim the Piltdown skull proves whose theory of evolution?

3. Journalists covering the case note that what is lacking between the prosecution and defense?

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

5. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what fashion does defense attorney Darrow question Bryan?

2. How do anti-evolutionists respond to new fossil discoveries and discussion of evolution?

3. What does George W. Rappleyea see upon viewing the press release about the trial in Dayton?

4. How does Darrow become involved in the Scopes trial on the defense side?

5. What role does World War I play in the tensions between fundamentalists and modernists?

6. Why does the National Civil Liberties Bureau change its name to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?

7. What is the position Darrow comes to help in defending?

8. William Jennings Bryan is one of the key players in this historical work. His role is what?

9. What is Georges Cuvier's theory that is more widely accepted than Chevalier de Lamarck's?

10. How is it that, by the turn of the 20th century, writers and historians are keeping alive the idea of disagreement between religion and science?

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