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

2. The author identifies the timing of the anti-evolution movement of the 1920s is due in part to what?
(a) Growth of public, private schools.
(b) Growth of private schools.
(c) College growth.
(d) Growth of public schools.

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

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

5. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?
(a) Historians, theologians.
(b) Historians, geologists.
(c) Historians, writers.
(d) Clergy, natural scientists.

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

3. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?

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

5. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?

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