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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 6 Preliminary Rounds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Darrow tries to find jurors who profess what?
(a) Accept evolution.
(b) Not bound to fundamentalism.
(c) Whether or not a conservative Christian.
(d) An open mind.

2. In 1925, Dayton Tennessee is what type of town?
(a) Very new.
(b) Relatively new.
(c) Relatively old.
(d) Very old.

3. The National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1917.

4. On May 25, what does the grand jury hear?
(a) Questioning of Scopes by the prosecution.
(b) Questioning of students by the defense.
(c) Arguments of the prosecution, defense.
(d) Only the prosecution's arguments.

5. The combination of what laws result in more students remaining in school beyond the elementary level?
(a) Child labor, compulsory education.
(b) Labor union, compulsory education.
(c) Compulsory education, apprentice.
(d) Child labor, labor union.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?

2. Dayton is an unlikely choice for the trial, as it is more rural, dwindling in numbers, and what?

3. What does the defense stress?

4. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?

5. Because of the shape and size of the Piltdown skull, scientists at that time believe it is a what?

(see the answer key)

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