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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. 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.

2. Larson shows that how many theories of evolutionary development fit nicely within a Christian explanation of the world?
(a) Some.
(b) Virtually none.
(c) Nearly all.
(d) Most.

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

4. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?
(a) Scopes ape trial.
(b) Scopes gorilla trial.
(c) Scopes monkey trial.
(d) Scopes primate trial.

5. Because of the shape and size of the Piltdown skull, scientists at that time believe it is a what?
(a) Homogenate,
(b) Homocysteine.
(c) Hominoid.
(d) Homoousian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Larson presents the leading players, Darrow and Bryan, and provides a sense of what between them?

2. When Tennessee's bill passes, the ACLU runs a notice where, seeking a teacher willing to challenge the law?

3. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?

4. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?

5. Why does Darrow volunteer to defend Scopes beyond believing teachers should be able to instruct evolution?

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