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

2. 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) Charles Matchett.
(c) Simon Winn.
(d) Charles H. Corregan.

3. It seems an irregular case as the ACLU is paying litigation costs, and the prosecution is acting under whom?
(a) Southern Baptist minister.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) ACLU.
(d) Fundamentalists.

4. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?
(a) Accounts of human life spans of hundreds of years are literal.
(b) Account of six days is symbolic rather than literal.
(c) Account of six days is literal rather than symbolic.
(d) Account of only lives on Noah's ark surviving a great flood is literal.

5. Darrow seeks an early ruling on whether scientific experts may testify, and the judge says he will hear the issue when?
(a) Following Tuesday (14th).
(b) Sometime next week.
(c) Following Monday (13th).
(d) Following Wednesday (15th).

Short Answer Questions

1. Which man, Darrow or Bryan, eventually backs down from the challenges the Scopes trial presents?

2. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?

3. Universities begin incorporating tenure and academic freedom to protect the freedom of what?

4. After 1923, anti-evolutionists begin focusing on which state for legal action?

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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