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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. On Tuesday (14th), the judge lets a local pastors' association select subsequent ministers to pray, and they choose which?
(a) Alernate fundamentalists, conservatives.
(b) Conservatives.
(c) Fundamentalists.
(d) Alternate conservatives, modernists.

2. Why is Darrow's rebuttal critical when the prosecution argues that the majority should be able to decide what is taught?
(a) Plans to show that the text Scopes uses teaching evolution has official approval.
(b) Plans to show both biblical accounts and evolution must be taught..
(c) Plans to show different interpretations of biblical passages.
(d) Plans to forego closing argument, cutting out prosecution's plans.

3. Bryan concedes that he interprets the Bible and at times, he does not know the answers to what?
(a) Evolution questions Darrow raises.
(b) Zoological questions Darrow raises.
(c) Biblical questions Darrow raises.
(d) Biological questions Darrow raises.

4. The person who has been debating Bryan over the years increases his efforts to show what as the trial nears?
(a) Evolution's compatibility with Christianity.
(b) Bryan's position on evolution is mythical.
(c) Evolution is proven as shown in school texts.
(d) Evolution's incompatibility with Christianity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On Wednesday (15th), the judge recalls the jurors and instructs each side to do what?

2. The nation's press quickly turns from the trial to what?

3. Both sides use the media in attempts to throw off the other. How?

4. Bryan leaves legal issues to the other lawyers and assumes responsibility to do what?

5. The defense openly issues what daily notices?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bryan do upon conclusion of the Scopes trial?

2. How does Davenport prepare for the trial?

3. Why is it in the final analysis that neither side is able to claim a decisive victory?

4. What witnesses does the prosecution call?

5. Why is it important which witness the defense opens with?

6. Which side is seen as the true winner of the Scopes trial?

7. What early legal issues echo the argument that is before the court?

8. Why does the prosecution object to Darrow questioning Metcalf?

9. What transpires in the 1950s?

10. How does the questioning of the jury proceed?

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