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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 9 Retelling the Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many conservatives gather at the first World's Christian Fundamentals Association conference in 1919?
(a) 6,000.
(b) 60,000.
(c) 600.
(d) 600,000.

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

3. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?
(a) Advance individual rights, liberties.
(b) Impede individual rights, liberties.
(c) Promote state rights, liberties.
(d) Further federal rights, liberties.

4. What does John Randolph Neal do while serving as the primary defense at a preliminary hearing on May 9?
(a) Maintains that Scopes' teaching does not conflict with biblical accounts.
(b) Maintains that the text Scopes uses has school approval.
(c) Readily concedes that Scopes teaches human evolution.
(d) Declines to make a statement.

5. The jury deliberates how long before returning with a guilty verdict?
(a) 1/2 day.
(b) 90 minutes.
(c) 9 minutes.
(d) 1 day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of the shape and size of the Piltdown skull, scientists at that time believe it is a what?

2. Although the prosecution has seen the law upheld, what does the defense believe?

3. On May 25, what does the grand jury hear?

4. Larson says that Darrow asks potential jurors if they know anything about evolution, think the Bible opposes it, and what third issue?

5. By the 1950s, the trial becomes popular among historians and is often shown whose victory?

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