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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 2 Government by the People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The combination of what laws result in more students remaining in school beyond the elementary level?
(a) Compulsory education, apprentice.
(b) Child labor, compulsory education.
(c) Child labor, labor union.
(d) Labor union, compulsory education.

2. The author identifies the timing of the anti-evolution movement of the 1920s is due in part to what?
(a) Growth of private schools.
(b) Growth of public schools.
(c) College growth.
(d) Growth of public, private schools.

3. Darrow defends John Scopes for violating which laws, saying evolution cannot be taught in public schools?
(a) State.
(b) Federal.
(c) County.
(d) Municipal.

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

5. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?
(a) The Bible has no place in the public schools.
(b) The Bible is not factual..
(c) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach history.
(d) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach nature, science.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Darrow never specifically asks about what?

4. What else pushes evolution to the forefront of public debate in the early 1920s?

5. Larson presents the leading players, Darrow and Bryan, and provides a sense of what between them?

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