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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 one ACLU concern with Darrow?
(a) He merely wants confrontation with Bryan.
(b) He only seeks publicity.
(c) He is too radical.
(d) He has not been practicing law for 10 years.

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

3. Sunday afternoon (12th), Bryan gives a speech outside the court, but he cannot speak about what issue there?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Freedom of education.
(c) Freedom of religion.
(d) Freedom of speech.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. The defense challenges the anti-evolution statute's constitutionality on the second day using a motion to what?

5. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?

(see the answer key)

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