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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. Which New Yorker, originally with a chemical engineering doctorate, sees a way to challenge the anti-evolution law?
(a) Tom Stewart.
(b) Ben G. McKenzie.
(c) John T. Raulston.
(d) George W. Rappleyea.

2. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?
(a) Sporadic.
(b) Local.
(c) Major.
(d) Minor.

3. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?
(a) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach nature, science.
(b) The Bible is not factual..
(c) The Bible has no place in the public schools.
(d) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach history.

4. Journalists covering the case note that what is lacking between the prosecution and defense?
(a) Hostility, tension.
(b) Professionalism, animosity.
(c) Bickering, admiration.
(d) Admiration, respect.

5. What position does Bryan previously serve in, but later resign from?
(a) Secretary of State.
(b) Secretary of Treasury.
(c) Secretary of the Army.
(d) Secretary of Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. The scene that the author refers to in his Introduction is said to be reminiscent of what dramatic scenes?

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

3. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?

4. Because of the shape and size of the Piltdown skull, scientists at that time believe it is a what?

5. Offering to move the trial up, the presiding judge seeks to do what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When the Tennessee law against teaching evolution is enacted, what does the ACLU do?

4. What key individuals come aboard the day after George W. Rappleyea?

5. What role does William Jennings Bryan play in the rise of the anti-evolutionary movement and events leading to the Scopes trial?

6. What initial legislative reform does Bryan seek prior to Tennessee?

7. Why is it that the ACLU is concerned about the academic freedom around which the Scopes trial centers?

8. 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?

9. Why is it that the anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s?

10. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

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