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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. Bryan offers his services to the prosecution in mid-May despite not having been practicing law for how long?
(a) Over 30 years.
(b) Over 15 years.
(c) Over 20 years.
(d) Over 25 years.

2. The Tennessee Supreme Court takes what action regarding Scopes' conviction?
(a) Reverts to lower court.
(b) Overturns.
(c) Sustains.
(d) Upholds.

3. Although the prosecution has seen the law upheld, what does the defense believe?
(a) They will eventually win popular support.
(b) They won the popular reaction to the trial.
(c) The popular view is moving to the middle.
(d) The popular reaction was essentially split.

4. Who attends a sermon Bryan gives in Dayton on Sunday (12th) immediately after the first trial date?
(a) Scopes.
(b) Darrow.
(c) Most of the jury.
(d) Presiding judge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?

2. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?

3. Larson's introduction serves as a preview of the Scopes trial and issues it raises for whom?

4. High school texts are rewritten in the wake of the trial, with many doing what?

5. Over a century before the Piltdown skull find, who argues that environmental changes may affect biological makeup, and changes pass down to offspring?

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