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

2. Larson presents the leading players, Darrow and Bryan, and provides a sense of what between them?
(a) Respect, professionalism.
(b) Antagonism, tension.
(c) Respect, courtesy.
(d) Tension, professionalism.

3. Darrow grows to see evolutionary theory as a way of doing what?
(a) Supporting the ACLU leaders in garnering their initial victory.
(b) Achieving Scopes' clearance of the criminal charges.
(c) Debunking biblical accounts of divine creation, design.
(d) Guaranteeing American civil liberty of freedom of speech.

4. Bryan leaves legal issues to the other lawyers and assumes responsibility to do what?
(a) Find scientists, attorneys to testify.
(b) Find theologians, clergy to testify.
(c) Find scholars, scientists to testify.
(d) Find scientists, theologians to testify.

5. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?
(a) Texts include evolutionary theory.
(b) Texts include more political science.
(c) Texts include more modern history.
(d) Texts include more revolutionary theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. The defense identifies how many different constitutional objections to the statute?

2. Superintendent White testifies that Scopes does what?

3. The prosecution argues that the law simply bars teaching evolution, regardless of what?

4. Most national politicians publicly choose what position on the trial?

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?

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