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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. Futile attempts of the ACLU in cases before Scopes' trial are likely because of what general attitude during and directly after World War I?
(a) Fundamentalism, patriotism.
(b) Anticommunism, fundamentalism.
(c) Antisocialism, capitalism.
(d) Anticommunism, patriotism.

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

3. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(d) Charles Dawson.

4. In addition to Florida, which state passes a minor resolution on the anti-evolution issue in 1923?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Oklahoma.

5. What does the jaw for the Piltdown skull appear to be of?
(a) An unknown ape.
(b) An unknown feline.
(c) An underdeveloped bear.
(d) An unknown canine.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Over a century before the Piltdown skull find, who argues that environmental changes may affect biological makeup, and changes pass down to offspring?

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

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