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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else pushes evolution to the forefront of public debate in the early 1920s?

2. The author identifies the timing of the anti-evolution movement of the 1920s is due in part to what?

3. Offering to move the trial up, the presiding judge seeks to do what?

4. The ACLU sees Tennessee's law against teaching evolution as part of a systematic "assault" on personal liberty, starting with limitations when?

5. The combination of what laws result in more students remaining in school beyond the elementary level?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the find that paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels Eoanthropus dasoni?

2. 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?

3. What takes place as word of the Piltdown skull leaks into popular society?

4. What is the position Darrow comes to help in defending?

5. What key individuals come aboard the day after George W. Rappleyea?

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

7. What are two legal battles that helped make Darrow prominent?

8. What are some of the similarities Darrow will present in comparison to Bryan?

9. Why does the National Civil Liberties Bureau change its name to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the conception of individual rights change in comparison with majoritarian argument? In what manner does it affect individuals in their identification with defense arguments? Why is this so?

Essay Topic 2

At the start, the defense challenges the anti-abortion law's constitutionality in a motion to quash the indictment by identifying fourteen separate objections. What does the defense stress? What does the prosecution argue regarding the majority? Why is Darrow's rebuttal important? What reasons does the defense argue that makes the statute illegal? What does he contend regarding the biblical accounts?

Essay Topic 3

What controversies take place regarding daily prayers during the trial? What objections does the defense make, and why? What do they request? What position does the prosecution maintain? Upon hearing the judge's decision, what is expected and what finally results?

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