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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. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) Florida.

2. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?
(a) Many fundamentalists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(b) Many modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(c) Nearly all modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(d) Many modernists oppose the war, and global affairs intervention.

3. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?
(a) Scopes primate trial.
(b) Scopes gorilla trial.
(c) Scopes monkey trial.
(d) Scopes ape trial.

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

5. Darwin's view of random variations and survival-of-the-fittest pose problems for many Christians holding what view of nature?
(a) Teleological.
(b) Physiological.
(c) Geological.
(d) Biological.

Short Answer Questions

1. Talk of evolution and new fossil finds have anti-evolutionists responding how beyond calling for teaching limits?

2. In the 1920s, which denominational leaders stress the divine inspiration of the Bible and its literal interpretation?

3. After defeat of the first bill for a ban on teaching evolution, Bryan argues that who should decide what is taught?

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

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

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