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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 is Bryan's view regarding World War I?
(a) U.S. should support England.
(b) It is a sign of the end times.
(c) U.S. should support Germany.
(d) U.S. should support Prussia.

2. The Introduction focuses on questioning taking place on a wooden platform in what location?
(a) Courthouse lawn.
(b) Courtroom.
(c) Municiplal Auditorium.
(d) City Hall.

3. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?
(a) Major.
(b) Sporadic.
(c) Minor.
(d) Local.

4. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?
(a) Accounts of human life spans of hundreds of years are literal.
(b) Account of six days is literal rather than symbolic.
(c) Account of only lives on Noah's ark surviving a great flood is literal.
(d) Account of six days is symbolic rather than literal.

5. In addition to Florida, which state passes a minor resolution on the anti-evolution issue in 1923?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Georgia.
(d) South Carolina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?

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

3. After the war, the cultural crisis grows worse for fundamentalists and they begin to take what action?

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

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

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