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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 defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?

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

3. In the 1920s, which denominational leaders stress the divine inspiration of the Bible and its literal interpretation?

4. Why does Darrow volunteer to defend Scopes beyond believing teachers should be able to instruct evolution?

5. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Why is it that the anti-evolution movement's lack of a clear, specific legal or political issue changes by late 1921?

4. What does federalism grow out of?

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

6. What is the position that Bryan comes to aid in prosecuting?

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

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

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

10. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the Scopes trial widely regarded as the trial of the century?

Essay Topic 2

How does the conception of individual rights change in comparison with majoritarian argument? In what manner does it affect individuals in their identification with defense arguments? Why is this so?

Essay Topic 3

What reasons seem to make Dayton an unlikely selection for the trial to take place? What aspects would seem more likely of a town where Scopes' trial would transpire?

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