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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. Who asks some of Scopes' students to testify against him even though they are reluctant to?
(a) Darrow.
(b) Scopes.
(c) Bryan.
(d) Rappleyea.

2. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?
(a) Bryan refuses to leave the witness chair.
(b) Darrow objects and states that he is not finished.
(c) The judge terminates the questioning.
(d) Bryan acquiesces to the chief prosecutor's call.

3. What is President Calvin Coolidge's position on the trial?
(a) Fundamentalist.
(b) Modernist.
(c) It is a Tennessee matter.
(d) Declines to comment.

4. On what grounds does Darrow argue that the statute is illegal, given that it imposes a specific religious stance?
(a) Multiple interpretations exist.
(b) Violates freedom of speech.
(c) Evolutionary theory is proven.
(d) Violates freedom of education.

5. What does the jaw for the Piltdown skull appear to be of?
(a) An unknown feline.
(b) An unknown canine.
(c) An unknown ape.
(d) An underdeveloped bear.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About how many reporters cover the trial from Dayton?

3. Prosecutors privately boast that they will ambush the defense, who will expect them to restrict the case to what?

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

5. Once proceedings are over, the jury returns to the room for instructions, having heard how much testimony and questioning?

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