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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. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?
(a) Bible reading.
(b) Religious.
(c) Physical.
(d) Patriotic.

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) Charles Darwin.
(b) Charles Dawson.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Chevalier de Lamarck.

3. As desire for academic freedom spreads to high schools, the ACLU defends teachers and what else?
(a) Makes appeals to school boards.
(b) Publishes statements on the issue.
(c) Organizes local civil protests.
(d) Makes appeals to state supreme courts.

4. Darrow is likely the most famous U.S. trial lawyer by the 1920s, defending many famous clients including what Socialist labor leader in the late 1890s?
(a) Charles H. Corregan.
(b) Eugene V. Debs.
(c) Simon Winn.
(d) Charles Matchett.

5. 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) Antisocialism, capitalism.
(b) Anticommunism, fundamentalism.
(c) Fundamentalism, patriotism.
(d) Anticommunism, patriotism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dayton, between Knoxville and Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley, is in what part of Tennessee?

2. Why is Darrow's rebuttal critical when the prosecution argues that the majority should be able to decide what is taught?

3. Because of the shape and size of the Piltdown skull, scientists at that time believe it is a what?

4. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?

5. Bryan hears of the proposal to ban teaching evolution, and as he supports the idea in talks and writing, he does what else?

(see the answer key)

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