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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 author identifies the timing of the anti-evolution movement of the 1920s is due in part to what?
(a) Growth of public schools.
(b) College growth.
(c) Growth of public, private schools.
(d) Growth of private schools.

2. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?
(a) Texts include evolutionary theory.
(b) Texts include more modern history.
(c) Texts include more revolutionary theory.
(d) Texts include more political science.

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

4. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?
(a) Many fundamentalists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(b) Many modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(c) Many modernists oppose the war, and global affairs intervention.
(d) Nearly all modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.

5. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?
(a) Oklahoma.
(b) Florida.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?

2. After the war, the National Civil Liberties Bureau changes its name to what to reflect its new focus defending labor union activists?

3. Because of the shape and size of the Piltdown skull, scientists at that time believe it is a what?

4. Futile attempts of the ACLU in cases before Scopes' trial are likely because of what general attitude during and directly after World War I?

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

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