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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?
(a) Historians, writers.
(b) Clergy, natural scientists.
(c) Historians, geologists.
(d) Historians, theologians.

2. Why does Darrow volunteer to defend Scopes beyond believing teachers should be able to instruct evolution?
(a) Wants to debate Bryan.
(b) Seeks freedom of public education.
(c) Feels concern for Scopes.
(d) Needs national publicity.

3. Which New Yorker, originally with a chemical engineering doctorate, sees a way to challenge the anti-evolution law?
(a) Ben G. McKenzie.
(b) Tom Stewart.
(c) George W. Rappleyea.
(d) John T. Raulston.

4. What position does Bryan previously serve in, but later resign from?
(a) Secretary of the Army.
(b) Secretary of Education.
(c) Secretary of State.
(d) Secretary of Treasury.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does John W. Butler propose it a misdemeanor to teach that man evolves, "from a lower order of animal" instead of the biblical account?

2. It seems an irregular case as the ACLU is paying litigation costs, and the prosecution is acting under whom?

3. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?

4. Bryan offers his services to the prosecution in mid-May despite not having been practicing law for how long?

5. After 1923, anti-evolutionists begin focusing on which state for legal action?

Short Essay Questions

1. William Jennings Bryan is one of the key players in this historical work. His role is what?

2. What is the evolutionary theory that French naturalist Chevalier de Lamarck suggests more than a century prior to Darwin's?

3. How is it that, by the turn of the 20th century, writers and historians are keeping alive the idea of disagreement between religion and science?

4. What does federalism grow out of?

5. What role does World War I play in the tensions between fundamentalists and modernists?

6. Why is it that the ACLU is concerned about the academic freedom around which the Scopes trial centers?

7. When the Tennessee law against teaching evolution is enacted, what does the ACLU do?

8. What is the position that Bryan comes to aid in prosecuting?

9. Why is it that the anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s?

10. How is it that this case does not seem normal from the start?

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