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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 In Defense of Individual Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?
(a) Due to discoveries in experimental generics.
(b) Due to discoveries in experimental genetics.
(c) Due to discoveries in experimetal palentology.
(d) Due to discoveries in experimental genus.

2. After the war, the National Civil Liberties Bureau changes its name to what to reflect its new focus defending labor union activists?
(a) American Civilian Legal Union (ACLU).
(b) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
(c) American Civilian Liberties Unity (ACLU).
(d) American Civil Liberty Unit (ACLU).

3. After the war, the cultural crisis grows worse for fundamentalists and they begin to take what action?
(a) Terrorist.
(b) Social.
(c) Revolutionary.
(d) Religious.

4. The scene that the author refers to in his Introduction is said to be reminiscent of what dramatic scenes?
(a) Stage, movie.
(b) Stage, TV.
(c) Radio, TV.
(d) Movie, TV.

5. How many conservatives gather at the first World's Christian Fundamentals Association conference in 1919?
(a) 60,000.
(b) 600.
(c) 600,000.
(d) 6,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else pushes evolution to the forefront of public debate in the early 1920s?

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

3. When does John W. Butler propose it a misdemeanor to teach that man evolves, "from a lower order of animal" instead of the biblical account?

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

5. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?

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