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

2. Over a century before the Piltdown skull find, who argues that environmental changes may affect biological makeup, and changes pass down to offspring?
(a) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Charles Dawson.
(d) Georges Cuvier.

3. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?
(a) Clergy, natural scientists.
(b) Historians, writers.
(c) Historians, theologians.
(d) Historians, geologists.

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

5. How does the prosecution handle jury selection?
(a) Accepts after rigorous questioning.
(b) Accepts only those professing Christianity.
(c) Readily accepts almost everyone.
(d) Rejects any accepting evolution theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dayton is an unlikely choice for the trial, as it is more rural, dwindling in numbers, and what?

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

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

4. Jury selection begins when on Friday (10th)?

5. As desire for academic freedom spreads to high schools, the ACLU defends teachers and what else?

(see the answer key)

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