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

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

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

4. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?
(a) Affords background of Darrow, Bryan.
(b) Draws readers in, frames the rest of his work.
(c) Outlines subsequent chapters.
(d) Provides an overview of evolutionary theory.

5. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?
(a) Book of Revelation.
(b) Old Testament miracles.
(c) Jesus' inner circle of disciples.
(d) New Testament miracles.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Greater student numbers plus the growing fundamentalist movement means conservative Christian parents find what is coming into conflict?

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

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