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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 it that Larson shows that helps put the ACLU into a position to test the Tennessee law and defend Scopes?
(a) Locating a willing teacher.
(b) Its origins.
(c) Darrow agrees to defend.
(d) That law holds a criminal penalty.

2. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?
(a) No scriptural passages need interpretation.
(b) Some scriptural passages need interpretation.
(c) Most scriptural passages need interpretation.
(d) All scriptural passages need interpretation.

3. Despite its rise, the anti-evolution movement lacks a clear, specific legal or political issue until when?
(a) Late 1923.
(b) Early 1924.
(c) Early 1925.
(d) Late 1921.

4. 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.

5. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?
(a) Bryan acquiesces to the chief prosecutor's call.
(b) Darrow objects and states that he is not finished.
(c) The judge terminates the questioning.
(d) Bryan refuses to leave the witness chair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which man, Darrow or Bryan, eventually backs down from the challenges the Scopes trial presents?

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

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

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

5. In defending conscientious objectors and war protesters, National Civil Liberties Bureau activists see that what are not the same?

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