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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 In Defense of Individual Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Larson presents the leading players, Darrow and Bryan, and provides a sense of what between them?
(a) Antagonism, tension.
(b) Respect, professionalism.
(c) Respect, courtesy.
(d) Tension, professionalism.

2. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?
(a) Most scriptural passages need interpretation.
(b) No scriptural passages need interpretation.
(c) All scriptural passages need interpretation.
(d) Some scriptural passages need interpretation.

3. Futile attempts of the ACLU in cases before Scopes' trial are likely because of what general attitude during and directly after World War I?
(a) Anticommunism, fundamentalism.
(b) Antisocialism, capitalism.
(c) Anticommunism, patriotism.
(d) Fundamentalism, patriotism.

4. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?
(a) Texts include more revolutionary theory.
(b) Texts include more political science.
(c) Texts include evolutionary theory.
(d) Texts include more modern history.

5. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Charles Dawson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?

2. What is Bryan's view regarding World War I?

3. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?

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

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

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