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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. As desire for academic freedom spreads to high schools, the ACLU defends teachers and what else?
(a) Organizes local civil protests.
(b) Publishes statements on the issue.
(c) Makes appeals to school boards.
(d) Makes appeals to state supreme courts.

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

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

4. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?
(a) Atheistic.
(b) Marxist.
(c) Foreign.
(d) Darwinian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?

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

3. What position does Bryan previously serve in, but later resign from?

4. The Introduction focuses on questioning taking place on a wooden platform in what location?

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

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