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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. Most major newspapers take what position?
(a) Equal attention; express no opinion.
(b) Support prosecution.
(c) Support defense.
(d) Equal attention to both sides; middle view.

2. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?
(a) Account of only lives on Noah's ark surviving a great flood is literal.
(b) Account of six days is literal rather than symbolic.
(c) Account of six days is symbolic rather than literal.
(d) Accounts of human life spans of hundreds of years are literal.

3. After 1923, anti-evolutionists begin focusing on which state for legal action?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Georgia.

4. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?
(a) Scopes gorilla trial.
(b) Scopes primate trial.
(c) Scopes monkey trial.
(d) Scopes ape trial.

5. Tennessee newspapers see the trial as what?
(a) Both as a loss and a draw for each side.
(b) Neither as a loss or a victory for either side.
(c) Both as a draw and a victory for each side.
(d) Both as a loss and a victory for each side.

Short Answer Questions

1. With the McCarthy-era attacks on individual liberty and rights, what does the trial come to symbolize?

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

3. Universities begin incorporating tenure and academic freedom to protect the freedom of what?

4. The author identifies the timing of the anti-evolution movement of the 1920s is due in part to what?

5. Bryan leaves legal issues to the other lawyers and assumes responsibility to do what?

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