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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 National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1918.

2. Darrow is likely the most famous U.S. trial lawyer by the 1920s, defending many famous clients including what Socialist labor leader in the late 1890s?
(a) Charles Matchett.
(b) Simon Winn.
(c) Charles H. Corregan.
(d) Eugene V. Debs.

3. The ACLU sees Tennessee's law against teaching evolution as part of a systematic "assault" on personal liberty, starting with limitations when?
(a) World War I.
(b) U.S. Civil War.
(c) Mexican-American War.
(d) Spanish-American War.

4. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?
(a) Charles Dawson.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Chevalier de Lamarck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Darrow's practice shifts slowly to criminal law where he often seeks to challenge traditional ideologies of what?

2. After defeat of the first bill for a ban on teaching evolution, Bryan argues that who should decide what is taught?

3. What else pushes evolution to the forefront of public debate in the early 1920s?

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

5. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?

(see the answer key)

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