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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. 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 literal rather than symbolic.
(c) Account of six days is symbolic rather than literal.
(d) Account of only lives on Noah's ark surviving a great flood is literal.

2. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Florida.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Oklahoma.

3. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?
(a) Many fundamentalists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(b) Nearly all modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(c) Many modernists oppose the war, and global affairs intervention.
(d) Many modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.

4. Darrow grows to see evolutionary theory as a way of doing what?
(a) Debunking biblical accounts of divine creation, design.
(b) Supporting the ACLU leaders in garnering their initial victory.
(c) Achieving Scopes' clearance of the criminal charges.
(d) Guaranteeing American civil liberty of freedom of speech.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one ACLU concern with Darrow?

2. After the war, the National Civil Liberties Bureau changes its name to what to reflect its new focus defending labor union activists?

3. How does the prosecution handle jury selection?

4. Darrow seeks an early ruling on whether scientific experts may testify, and the judge says he will hear the issue when?

5. Darrow's practice shifts slowly to criminal law where he often seeks to challenge traditional ideologies of what?

(see the answer key)

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