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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. What position does Bryan previously serve in, but later resign from?

2. The National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?

3. Paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels the Piltdown skull from a new species from what extinct primate?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What were concerns the ACLU had about Darrow?

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

9. What does federalism grow out of?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the shift in memories regarding the trial make the political landscape in the 1960s? Challenges to what type of statutes are made? In what fashion are the first and fourteenth amendments being applied at the state level? What was happening to anti-evolution laws?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

How do the origins of the ACLU put them in a position to test the Tennessee law and help in Scopes' defense?

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