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

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

3. What position does Bryan previously serve in, but later resign from?
(a) Secretary of the Army.
(b) Secretary of State.
(c) Secretary of Treasury.
(d) Secretary of Education.

4. What summer does the title of Edward J. Larson's work refer to?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1919.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?

2. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?

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

4. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?

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

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