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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) Parents' faith, children's education.
(b) Parents' faith, children's beliefs.
(c) Parents' education, faith.
(d) Children's faith, education.

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

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

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) Account of six days is symbolic rather than literal.
(c) Account of six days is literal rather than symbolic.
(d) Accounts of human life spans of hundreds of years are literal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Bryan previously serve in, but later resign from?

2. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?

3. Larson's introduction serves as a preview of the Scopes trial and issues it raises for whom?

4. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?

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

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