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

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

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

4. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?
(a) Bryan refuses to leave the witness chair.
(b) The judge terminates the questioning.
(c) Darrow objects and states that he is not finished.
(d) Bryan acquiesces to the chief prosecutor's call.

5. What summer does the title of Edward J. Larson's work refer to?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1925.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many conservatives gather at the first World's Christian Fundamentals Association conference in 1919?

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

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

4. Larson shows that how many theories of evolutionary development fit nicely within a Christian explanation of the world?

5. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?

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