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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?

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

3. In 1925, Dayton Tennessee is what type of town?

4. When does John W. Butler propose it a misdemeanor to teach that man evolves, "from a lower order of animal" instead of the biblical account?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were concerns the ACLU had about Darrow?

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

3. What is the evolutionary theory that French naturalist Chevalier de Lamarck suggests more than a century prior to Darwin's?

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

5. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

6. What takes place as word of the Piltdown skull leaks into popular society?

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

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

9. What is the find that paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels Eoanthropus dasoni?

10. What are essential things that took place during the preliminary hearing on May 9, 1925?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the introduction to Summer of the Gods, Edward J. Larson focuses on the two principal attorneys in the trial. What are the professional backgrounds of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan? Why are they each so keen on participating in the trial? How do their respective personalities and feelings concerning the causes they believe in affect the trial?

Essay Topic 2

What controversies take place regarding daily prayers during the trial? What objections does the defense make, and why? What do they request? What position does the prosecution maintain? Upon hearing the judge's decision, what is expected and what finally results?

Essay Topic 3

What is the Piltdown skull? What is its significance? What leads scientists to believe it was hominoid? What was unique about the jaw? What was Arthur Smith Woodward's connection to the skull and his importance? Why is it the larger American begins to take notice?

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