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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. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?

2. After 1923, anti-evolutionists begin focusing on which state for legal action?

3. The presiding judge wants an indictment as a conservative Christian, feeling a calling from God to officiate, and seeking what?

4. In defending conscientious objectors and war protesters, National Civil Liberties Bureau activists see that what are not the same?

5. What is it that Larson shows that helps put the ACLU into a position to test the Tennessee law and defend Scopes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In his introduction, how does the author describe the scene where Clarence Darrow questions William Jennings Bryan?

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

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

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

9. How is it that this case does not seem normal from the start?

10. What are some of the similarities Darrow will present in comparison to Bryan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does the media play in the Scopes trial? How does it view the press releases and lectures that the lawyers of both sides offer?

Essay Topic 2

At the start, the defense challenges the anti-abortion law's constitutionality in a motion to quash the indictment by identifying fourteen separate objections. What does the defense stress? What does the prosecution argue regarding the majority? Why is Darrow's rebuttal important? What reasons does the defense argue that makes the statute illegal? What does he contend regarding the biblical accounts?

Essay Topic 3

What moment does Larson describe in the Introduction? What is he seeking to do? What individuals are the readers introduced to? What is the status between them?

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