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

2. Bryan hears of the proposal to ban teaching evolution, and as he supports the idea in talks and writing, he does what else?
(a) Addresses the state Senate.
(b) Addresses joint sessions of the state's legislature.
(c) Avoids addressing governmental bodies.
(d) Addresses the state House of Representatives.

3. Over a century before the Piltdown skull find, who argues that environmental changes may affect biological makeup, and changes pass down to offspring?
(a) Charles Dawson.
(b) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Georges Cuvier.

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

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 modernists oppose the war, and global affairs intervention.
(c) Many modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(d) Many fundamentalists support the war, and global affairs intervention.

Short Answer Questions

1. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?

2. The anti-evolution movement develops during the 1920s as it does due to Bryan's leadership and what else?

3. What is Bryan's view regarding World War I?

4. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?

5. What summer does the title of Edward J. Larson's work refer to?

(see the answer key)

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