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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 does Bryan do in view of a literal Biblical interpretation and scientific facts when Darrow questions him?
(a) States that scientific assumptions are often disproved.
(b) Maintains his literal Biblical view.
(c) Refuses to answer some questions.
(d) Concedes this critical point.

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

3. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(d) Charles Dawson.

4. What does the jaw for the Piltdown skull appear to be of?
(a) An unknown feline.
(b) An unknown ape.
(c) An underdeveloped bear.
(d) An unknown canine.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?

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

4. In addition to Florida, which state passes a minor resolution on the anti-evolution issue in 1923?

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

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