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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. Because of the shape and size of the Piltdown skull, scientists at that time believe it is a what?
(a) Hominoid.
(b) Homogenate,
(c) Homoousian.
(d) Homocysteine.

2. The scene that the author refers to in his Introduction is said to be reminiscent of what dramatic scenes?
(a) Radio, TV.
(b) Stage, movie.
(c) Movie, TV.
(d) Stage, TV.

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

4. 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 symbolic rather than literal.
(d) Account of six days is literal rather than symbolic.

5. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?
(a) No scriptural passages need interpretation.
(b) All scriptural passages need interpretation.
(c) Most scriptural passages need interpretation.
(d) Some scriptural passages need interpretation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?

2. Darwin's view of random variations and survival-of-the-fittest pose problems for many Christians holding what view of nature?

3. What does Bryan do in view of a literal Biblical interpretation and scientific facts when Darrow questions him?

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

5. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?

(see the answer key)

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