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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) Eohippus.
(b) Eolith.
(c) Eosinophil.
(d) Eoanthropus dasoni.

2. Greater student numbers plus the growing fundamentalist movement means conservative Christian parents find what is coming into conflict?
(a) Parents' faith, children's education.
(b) Parents' education, faith.
(c) Parents' faith, children's beliefs.
(d) Children's faith, education.

3. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?
(a) Due to discoveries in experimental generics.
(b) Due to discoveries in experimental genus.
(c) Due to discoveries in experimental genetics.
(d) Due to discoveries in experimetal palentology.

4. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?
(a) Biology, the solar system.
(b) Geology, the solar system.
(c) Geology, biology.
(d) Evolution.

5. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?
(a) Account of only lives on Noah's ark surviving a great flood is literal.
(b) Accounts of human life spans of hundreds of years are literal.
(c) Account of six days is literal rather than symbolic.
(d) Account of six days is symbolic rather than literal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As it makes its way into the press, papers proclaim the Piltdown skull proves whose theory of evolution?

3. Because of the shape and size of the Piltdown skull, scientists at that time believe it is a what?

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

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

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