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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 1 Digging Up Controversy.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Larson says the defense strategy of calling a prosecutor to the stand to testify as a hostile witness is what?
(a) Smart.
(b) Clever.
(c) Inevitable.
(d) Twisted.

3. Greater student numbers plus the growing fundamentalist movement means conservative Christian parents find what is coming into conflict?
(a) Parents' faith, children's education.
(b) Parents' education, faith.
(c) Children's faith, education.
(d) Parents' faith, children's beliefs.

4. The scene that the author refers to in his Introduction is said to be reminiscent of what dramatic scenes?
(a) Radio, TV.
(b) Stage, TV.
(c) Movie, TV.
(d) Stage, movie.

5. 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 modern history.
(b) Texts include evolutionary theory.
(c) Texts include more political science.
(d) Texts include more revolutionary theory.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?

3. Darwin's view of random variations and survival-of-the-fittest pose problems for many Christians holding what view of nature?

4. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?

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

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