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

2. Bryan involves himself in how many state anti-evolution proposals in 1923?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2,
(d) 6.

3. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Biology, the solar system.
(c) Geology, the solar system.
(d) Geology, biology.

4. Universities begin incorporating tenure and academic freedom to protect the freedom of what?
(a) Education, research.
(b) Speech, research.
(c) Speech, education.
(d) Religion, speech.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?

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

4. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?

5. In addition to Florida, which state passes a minor resolution on the anti-evolution issue in 1923?

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