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

2. As it makes its way into the press, papers proclaim the Piltdown skull proves whose theory of evolution?
(a) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(b) Charles Dawson.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Charles Darwin.

3. What else pushes evolution to the forefront of public debate in the early 1920s?
(a) New fossil discoveries.
(b) Major changes in theological positions of Catholicism.
(c) Major changes in theological positions of Christian Science.
(d) World War I veterans enter postgraduate studies.

4. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?
(a) Charles Dawson.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Chevalier de Lamarck.

5. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?
(a) Historians, geologists.
(b) Historians, writers.
(c) Clergy, natural scientists.
(d) Historians, theologians.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Darrow volunteer to defend Scopes beyond believing teachers should be able to instruct evolution?

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

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

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