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

2. Greater student numbers plus the growing fundamentalist movement means conservative Christian parents find what is coming into conflict?
(a) Parents' education, faith.
(b) Parents' faith, children's beliefs.
(c) Parents' faith, children's education.
(d) Children's faith, education.

3. The Introduction focuses on questioning taking place on a wooden platform in what location?
(a) Courthouse lawn.
(b) Courtroom.
(c) Municiplal Auditorium.
(d) City Hall.

4. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?
(a) Texts include more political science.
(b) Texts include evolutionary theory.
(c) Texts include more revolutionary theory.
(d) Texts include more modern history.

5. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?
(a) Marxist.
(b) Atheistic.
(c) Foreign.
(d) Darwinian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Darwin's view of random variations and survival-of-the-fittest pose problems for many Christians holding what view of nature?

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

4. What summer does the title of Edward J. Larson's work refer to?

5. What does the jaw for the Piltdown skull appear to be of?

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