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

2. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?
(a) Charles Dawson.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Chevalier de Lamarck.

3. The combination of what laws result in more students remaining in school beyond the elementary level?
(a) Compulsory education, apprentice.
(b) Labor union, compulsory education.
(c) Child labor, labor union.
(d) Child labor, compulsory education.

4. Paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels the Piltdown skull from a new species from what extinct primate?
(a) Eosinophil.
(b) Eolith.
(c) Eohippus.
(d) Eoanthropus dasoni.

5. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?
(a) Lutherans.
(b) Christian Scientists.
(c) Fundamentalist Christians.
(d) Roman Catholics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ACLU sees Tennessee's law against teaching evolution as part of a systematic "assault" on personal liberty, starting with limitations when?

2. Talk of evolution and new fossil finds have anti-evolutionists responding how beyond calling for teaching limits?

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

4. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?

5. In the 1920s, which denominational leaders stress the divine inspiration of the Bible and its literal interpretation?

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