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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John Randolph Neal do while serving as the primary defense at a preliminary hearing on May 9?
(a) Readily concedes that Scopes teaches human evolution.
(b) Maintains that the text Scopes uses has school approval.
(c) Maintains that Scopes' teaching does not conflict with biblical accounts.
(d) Declines to make a statement.

2. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) Florida.

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

4. Who is the presiding judge?
(a) Tom Stewart.
(b) Ben G. McKenzie.
(c) George W. Rappleyea.
(d) John T. Raulston.

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

6. Bryan involves himself in how many state anti-evolution proposals in 1923?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 2,
(d) 1.

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

8. 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, patriotism.
(b) Fundamentalism, patriotism.
(c) Antisocialism, capitalism.
(d) Anticommunism, fundamentalism.

9. Offering to move the trial up, the presiding judge seeks to do what?
(a) Ensuring fair trial proceedings, justice.
(b) Limiting time for defense preparation.
(c) Avoiding publicity, unfair trial atmosphere.
(d) Avoid conflicting with the school session.

10. Scopes is the ideal defendant in many ways being young, single, shy, well-liked, and what else?
(a) Plans to publish book about the trial.
(b) Willing to pursue postgraduate studies in law.
(c) Having little to lose.
(d) Can offer soapbox replies about evolution.

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

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

13. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?
(a) Physical.
(b) Religious.
(c) Patriotic.
(d) Bible reading.

14. After the war, the cultural crisis grows worse for fundamentalists and they begin to take what action?
(a) Religious.
(b) Social.
(c) Terrorist.
(d) Revolutionary.

15. When Tennessee's bill passes, the ACLU runs a notice where, seeking a teacher willing to challenge the law?
(a) Memphis Flyer.
(b) Chattanooga Times.
(c) Nashville Tribune.
(d) Knoxville Journal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?

3. Which man, Darrow or Bryan, eventually backs down from the challenges the Scopes trial presents?

4. Academic freedom has always been a concern for the ACLU, as it relates to what?

5. Larson shows that how many theories of evolutionary development fit nicely within a Christian explanation of the world?

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