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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. Darwin's view of random variations and survival-of-the-fittest pose problems for many Christians holding what view of nature?
(a) Geological.
(b) Teleological.
(c) Physiological.
(d) Biological.

2. When Tennessee's bill passes, the ACLU runs a notice where, seeking a teacher willing to challenge the law?
(a) Nashville Tribune.
(b) Chattanooga Times.
(c) Knoxville Journal.
(d) Memphis Flyer.

3. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?
(a) Patriotic.
(b) Bible reading.
(c) Religious.
(d) Physical.

4. Darrow's practice shifts slowly to criminal law where he often seeks to challenge traditional ideologies of what?
(a) Amorality, humanity.
(b) Morality, nihilism.
(c) Morality, religion.
(d) Morality, agnosticism.

5. Darrow never specifically asks about what?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Solar system.
(c) Bible.
(d) Evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?

2. The author identifies the timing of the anti-evolution movement of the 1920s is due in part to what?

3. The scene that the author refers to in his Introduction is said to be reminiscent of what dramatic scenes?

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

5. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?

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