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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. The trial opens on Friday. What is the date?
(a) May 10, 1925.
(b) June 10, 1925.
(c) August 10, 1925.
(d) July 10, 1925.

2. The ACLU sees Tennessee's law against teaching evolution as part of a systematic "assault" on personal liberty, starting with limitations when?
(a) Mexican-American War.
(b) Spanish-American War.
(c) U.S. Civil War.
(d) World War I.

3. What does John Randolph Neal do while serving as the primary defense at a preliminary hearing on May 9?
(a) Maintains that the text Scopes uses has school approval.
(b) Maintains that Scopes' teaching does not conflict with biblical accounts.
(c) Declines to make a statement.
(d) Readily concedes that Scopes teaches human evolution.

4. Because of the shape and size of the Piltdown skull, scientists at that time believe it is a what?
(a) Homoousian.
(b) Hominoid.
(c) Homocysteine.
(d) Homogenate,

5. Offering to move the trial up, the presiding judge seeks to do what?
(a) Ensuring fair trial proceedings, justice.
(b) Avoid conflicting with the school session.
(c) Avoiding publicity, unfair trial atmosphere.
(d) Limiting time for defense preparation.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Tennessee's bill passes, the ACLU runs a notice where, seeking a teacher willing to challenge the law?

2. Dayton, between Knoxville and Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley, is in what part of Tennessee?

3. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?

4. Who asks some of Scopes' students to testify against him even though they are reluctant to?

5. By 1925, the ACLU still seeks a court win, mainly as the first amendment's wording does not necessarily protect freedom of speech at what level?

(see the answer key)

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