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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. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?
(a) Due to discoveries in experimetal palentology.
(b) Due to discoveries in experimental genus.
(c) Due to discoveries in experimental generics.
(d) Due to discoveries in experimental genetics.

2. As it makes its way into the press, papers proclaim the Piltdown skull proves whose theory of evolution?
(a) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(b) Charles Dawson.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Charles Darwin.

3. Paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels the Piltdown skull from a new species from what extinct primate?
(a) Eosinophil.
(b) Eolith.
(c) Eohippus.
(d) Eoanthropus dasoni.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?

2. Darrow never specifically asks about what?

3. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?

4. What does Bryan do in view of a literal Biblical interpretation and scientific facts when Darrow questions him?

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

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