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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. The scene that the author refers to in his Introduction is said to be reminiscent of what dramatic scenes?
(a) Stage, movie.
(b) Stage, TV.
(c) Radio, TV.
(d) Movie, TV.

2. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?
(a) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach history.
(b) The Bible has no place in the public schools.
(c) The Bible is not factual..
(d) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach nature, science.

3. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?
(a) Fundamentalist Christians.
(b) Lutherans.
(c) Christian Scientists.
(d) Roman Catholics.

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

5. After the war, the National Civil Liberties Bureau changes its name to what to reflect its new focus defending labor union activists?
(a) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
(b) American Civil Liberty Unit (ACLU).
(c) American Civilian Legal Union (ACLU).
(d) American Civilian Liberties Unity (ACLU).

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite its rise, the anti-evolution movement lacks a clear, specific legal or political issue until when?

2. How many conservatives gather at the first World's Christian Fundamentals Association conference in 1919?

3. Darwin's view of random variations and survival-of-the-fittest pose problems for many Christians holding what view of nature?

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

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

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