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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 In Defense of Individual Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Darrow grows to see evolutionary theory as a way of doing what?
(a) Supporting the ACLU leaders in garnering their initial victory.
(b) Debunking biblical accounts of divine creation, design.
(c) Guaranteeing American civil liberty of freedom of speech.
(d) Achieving Scopes' clearance of the criminal charges.

2. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?
(a) Affords background of Darrow, Bryan.
(b) Draws readers in, frames the rest of his work.
(c) Outlines subsequent chapters.
(d) Provides an overview of evolutionary theory.

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

4. The anti-evolution movement develops during the 1920s as it does due to Bryan's leadership and what else?
(a) Fundamentalists' opposition to conservative Christianity.
(b) Fundamentalists' opposition to modernism.
(c) Fundamentalists' support of modernism.
(d) Modernists' strong support of conservative Christianity.

5. Why does Darrow volunteer to defend Scopes beyond believing teachers should be able to instruct evolution?
(a) Feels concern for Scopes.
(b) Needs national publicity.
(c) Wants to debate Bryan.
(d) Seeks freedom of public education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Darrow's practice shifts slowly to criminal law where he often seeks to challenge traditional ideologies of what?

2. Academic freedom has always been a concern for the ACLU, as it relates to what?

3. Darrow is likely the most famous U.S. trial lawyer by the 1920s, defending many famous clients including what Socialist labor leader in the late 1890s?

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

5. The National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?

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