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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. Academic freedom has always been a concern for the ACLU, as it relates to what?
(a) Freedom of education.
(b) Freedom of religion.
(c) Freedom of research.
(d) Freedom of speech.

2. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?
(a) Florida.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Kentucky.

3. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?
(a) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach history.
(b) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach nature, science.
(c) The Bible has no place in the public schools.
(d) The Bible is not factual..

4. 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?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1923.
(d) A1921.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As it makes its way into the press, papers proclaim the Piltdown skull proves whose theory of evolution?

2. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?

3. Bryan involves himself in how many state anti-evolution proposals in 1923?

4. Darrow defends John Scopes for violating which laws, saying evolution cannot be taught in public schools?

5. After the war, the National Civil Liberties Bureau changes its name to what to reflect its new focus defending labor union activists?

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