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

2. 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 modern history.
(b) Texts include evolutionary theory.
(c) Texts include more revolutionary theory.
(d) Texts include more political science.

3. When does John W. Butler propose it a misdemeanor to teach that man evolves, "from a lower order of animal" instead of the biblical account?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1923.
(d) A1921.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels the Piltdown skull from a new species from what extinct primate?

5. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?

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