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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. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?
(a) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach nature, science.
(b) The Bible has no place in the public schools.
(c) The Bible is not factual..
(d) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach history.

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

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

4. Larson's introduction serves as a preview of the Scopes trial and issues it raises for whom?
(a) Tennessee society.
(b) School administrators.
(c) Teachers.
(d) American society.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Larson shows that how many theories of evolutionary development fit nicely within a Christian explanation of the world?

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

3. The combination of what laws result in more students remaining in school beyond the elementary level?

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

5. What position does Bryan previously serve in, but later resign from?

(see the answer key)

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