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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. The judge adjourns until Tuesday afternoon (14th), as a storm the night before affects what that prevents him from preparing a ruling?

2. Prosecutors open by briefly arguing that Scopes violates the law by teaching that humans evolve from other life forms and what?

3. Bryan comes how many days before the trial, giving him control over the "stage" of Dayton until defense arrival?

4. Sunday afternoon (12th), Bryan gives a speech outside the court, but he cannot speak about what issue there?

5. Bryan concedes that he interprets the Bible and at times, he does not know the answers to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bryan do upon conclusion of the Scopes trial?

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

3. What early legal issues echo the argument that is before the court?

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

5. What transpires in the 1950s?

6. Henry Fairfield Osborn approaches the trial in what fashion?

7. How is Dayton left following the trial?

8. What transpires within the anti-evolution crusade following the Scopes trial?

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

10. Was there any middle ground between the modernists and fundamentalists?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the development of a powerful anti-evolution movement, as well as discovery of additional fossils and evidence for evolution necessary for the Scopes trial as it takes place?

Essay Topic 2

What descriptions and statements does Larson utilize to portray the scene of the trial? What is it the reader easily views, and why?

Essay Topic 3

Why is the Scopes trial widely regarded as the trial of the century?

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