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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. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?
(a) Charles Dawson.
(b) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Charles Darwin.

2. Darrow is likely the most famous U.S. trial lawyer by the 1920s, defending many famous clients including what Socialist labor leader in the late 1890s?
(a) Simon Winn.
(b) Charles Matchett.
(c) Eugene V. Debs.
(d) Charles H. Corregan.

3. After the war, the National Civil Liberties Bureau changes its name to what to reflect its new focus defending labor union activists?
(a) American Civilian Liberties Unity (ACLU).
(b) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
(c) American Civilian Legal Union (ACLU).
(d) American Civil Liberty Unit (ACLU).

4. Larson's introduction serves as a preview of the Scopes trial and issues it raises for whom?
(a) School administrators.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Tennessee society.
(d) American society.

5. Darwin's view of random variations and survival-of-the-fittest pose problems for many Christians holding what view of nature?
(a) Geological.
(b) Teleological.
(c) Biological.
(d) Physiological.

Short Answer Questions

1. Futile attempts of the ACLU in cases before Scopes' trial are likely because of what general attitude during and directly after World War I?

2. Bryan involves himself in how many state anti-evolution proposals in 1923?

3. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?

4. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?

5. After defeat of the first bill for a ban on teaching evolution, Bryan argues that who should decide what is taught?

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