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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 8 The End of an Era.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do modernists argue matters regarding the accounts within biblical scriptures?
(a) Precision; unerring scientific accuracy.
(b) Precision; unerring historical accuracy.
(c) Interpretation; application to children's education.
(d) Understanding; application to people's needs.

2. The Tennessee Supreme Court takes what action regarding Scopes' conviction?
(a) Reverts to lower court.
(b) Overturns.
(c) Sustains.
(d) Upholds.

3. Who, at the time, sees the trial as a clear-cut victory for the defense or the prosecution?
(a) Darrow.
(b) No one.
(c) Scopes.
(d) Rappleyea.

4. What is Bryan's view regarding World War I?
(a) It is a sign of the end times.
(b) U.S. should support Prussia.
(c) U.S. should support England.
(d) U.S. should support Germany.

5. Scopes leaves following the verdict to study where?
(a) University of Iowa.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) University of Chicago.
(d) University of Tennessee.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the war, the cultural crisis grows worse for fundamentalists and they begin to take what action?

2. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?

3. How soon does Bryan die after the trial ends?

4. Bryan involves himself in how many state anti-evolution proposals in 1923?

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

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