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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 1 Digging Up Controversy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels the Piltdown skull from a new species from what extinct primate?
(a) Eosinophil.
(b) Eohippus.
(c) Eolith.
(d) Eoanthropus dasoni.

2. What does Bryan do in view of a literal Biblical interpretation and scientific facts when Darrow questions him?
(a) Concedes this critical point.
(b) Refuses to answer some questions.
(c) Maintains his literal Biblical view.
(d) States that scientific assumptions are often disproved.

3. The scene that the author refers to in his Introduction is said to be reminiscent of what dramatic scenes?
(a) Stage, TV.
(b) Movie, TV.
(c) Radio, TV.
(d) Stage, movie.

4. Darrow never specifically asks about what?
(a) Solar system.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Bible.
(d) Prayer.

5. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?
(a) Fundamentalist Christians.
(b) Roman Catholics.
(c) Lutherans.
(d) Christian Scientists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Larson says the defense strategy of calling a prosecutor to the stand to testify as a hostile witness is what?

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

3. Darrow defends John Scopes for violating which laws, saying evolution cannot be taught in public schools?

4. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?

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

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