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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. Bryan leaves legal issues to the other lawyers and assumes responsibility to do what?
(a) Find scientists, attorneys to testify.
(b) Find scientists, theologians to testify.
(c) Find scholars, scientists to testify.
(d) Find theologians, clergy to testify.

2. Only Yesterday is written by Harper's editor Frederick Lewis Allen and published in which year?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1951.

3. Under cross-examination, White admits that who officially adopts the text?
(a) State textbook commission.
(b) Municipal textbook commission.
(c) School board textbook committee.
(d) County textbook commission.

4. Under defense questioning, the students state that they were both still attending what?
(a) Sunday school.
(b) Boy Scouts.
(c) Church.
(d) High school.

5. With the McCarthy-era attacks on individual liberty and rights, what does the trial come to symbolize?
(a) Conservatives standing up to, defeating the minority.
(b) Libertarians standing up to, defeating the majority.
(c) Moderates standing up to, defeating the majority.
(d) Libertarians standing up to, defeating the minority.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although the prosecution has seen the law upheld, what does the defense believe?

2. Middle ground exists between the modernists and fundamentalists, and it garners what amount of attention?

3. Prosecutors privately boast that they will ambush the defense, who will expect them to restrict the case to what?

4. The jury deliberates how long before returning with a guilty verdict?

5. Who has already been debating with Bryan for years over the teaching of evolution?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Davenport prepare for the trial?

2. How is Dayton left following the trial?

3. Why is it important when Darrow ended?

4. Why is it important which witness the defense opens with?

5. What is the issue over the morning prayer at the trial?

6. What, essentially, do the prosecution and the defense offer when the judge instructs them to make their opening statements?

7. What are the primary positions of the defense and the prosecution?

8. Which side is seen as the true winner of the Scopes trial?

9. Why is it in the final analysis that neither side is able to claim a decisive victory?

10. How do fundamentalists approach modernists and evolutionists to debate?

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