Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Edward Larson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 151 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Edward Larson
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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. Jury selection begins when on Friday (10th)?
(a) Late morning.
(b) Late afternoon.
(c) Mid-afternoon.
(d) After lunch.

2. Which New Yorker, originally with a chemical engineering doctorate, sees a way to challenge the anti-evolution law?
(a) Ben G. McKenzie.
(b) John T. Raulston.
(c) Tom Stewart.
(d) George W. Rappleyea.

3. Darrow is likely the most famous U.S. trial lawyer by the 1920s, defending many famous clients including what Socialist labor leader in the late 1890s?
(a) Eugene V. Debs.
(b) Simon Winn.
(c) Charles H. Corregan.
(d) Charles Matchett.

4. Talk of evolution and new fossil finds have anti-evolutionists responding how beyond calling for teaching limits?
(a) Many note the teaching compatability of science, Christianity.
(b) Numerous seek requisite Bible teaching in public schools.
(c) Some decry the fossils as frauds, challenge their antiquity.
(d) Most strive for equal time instructing evolution, the Bible.

5. The anti-evolution movement develops during the 1920s as it does due to Bryan's leadership and what else?
(a) Fundamentalists' opposition to conservative Christianity.
(b) Fundamentalists' opposition to modernism.
(c) Fundamentalists' support of modernism.
(d) Modernists' strong support of conservative Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?

3. Why is the same grand jury that convened several months prior now returning?

4. On what grounds does Darrow argue that the statute is illegal, given that it imposes a specific religious stance?

5. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?

(see the answer key)

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