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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. Universities begin incorporating tenure and academic freedom to protect the freedom of what?
(a) Education, research.
(b) Religion, speech.
(c) Speech, education.
(d) Speech, research.

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

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

4. What is Bryan's view regarding World War I?
(a) U.S. should support Prussia.
(b) U.S. should support England.
(c) U.S. should support Germany.
(d) It is a sign of the end times.

5. The initial bill, calling for a ban on teaching evolution in schools, results in defeat by how many votes in the state's House of Representatives?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many conservatives gather at the first World's Christian Fundamentals Association conference in 1919?

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

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

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

5. After 1923, anti-evolutionists begin focusing on which state for legal action?

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