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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. On what grounds does Darrow argue that the statute is illegal, given that it imposes a specific religious stance?

2. The defense challenges the anti-evolution statute's constitutionality on the second day using a motion to what?

3. In June 1925, Scopes meets with which three well-known scientists who help shape public response to his trial?

4. How does the prosecution handle jury selection?

5. Darrow seeks an early ruling on whether scientific experts may testify, and the judge says he will hear the issue when?

Short Essay Questions

1. What transpires in the 1950s?

2. Why is Monday, the second trial date, essential for the defense?

3. Who does Scopes confer with in New York the month before the trial?

4. How is Bryan at the center of the pretrial publicity?

5. How does Davenport prepare for the trial?

6. How does the questioning of the jury proceed?

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

8. Why is it important when Darrow ended?

9. What does Bryan do the first weekend after jury selection?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How do science and Christianity exist together prior to World War I? How does this change in the 1920s, and why?

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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