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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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. Because of the high publicity, how do the potential jurors feel?
(a) Virtually none want to be on jury.
(b) Virtually all want to be on jury.
(c) Most unsure if they want to be on jury.
(d) Roughly half want to be on jury.

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

3. Larson says that Darrow asks potential jurors if they know anything about evolution, think the Bible opposes it, and what third issue?
(a) Can decide given case presented.
(b) See middle ground between Christianity, evolution.
(c) Are bound by fundamentalism.
(d) Believe Scopes is guilty of a crime.

4. Darrow's practice shifts slowly to criminal law where he often seeks to challenge traditional ideologies of what?
(a) Morality, religion.
(b) Morality, agnosticism.
(c) Amorality, humanity.
(d) Morality, nihilism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?

2. What else pushes evolution to the forefront of public debate in the early 1920s?

3. In defending conscientious objectors and war protesters, National Civil Liberties Bureau activists see that what are not the same?

4. Bryan offers his services to the prosecution in mid-May despite not having been practicing law for how long?

5. Paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels the Piltdown skull from a new species from what extinct primate?

(see the answer key)

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