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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) Debunking biblical accounts of divine creation, design.
(b) Supporting the ACLU leaders in garnering their initial victory.
(c) Achieving Scopes' clearance of the criminal charges.
(d) Guaranteeing American civil liberty of freedom of speech.

2. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?
(a) Due to discoveries in experimental genetics.
(b) Due to discoveries in experimetal palentology.
(c) Due to discoveries in experimental genus.
(d) Due to discoveries in experimental generics.

3. Paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels the Piltdown skull from a new species from what extinct primate?
(a) Eosinophil.
(b) Eohippus.
(c) Eolith.
(d) Eoanthropus dasoni.

4. What does the jaw for the Piltdown skull appear to be of?
(a) An underdeveloped bear.
(b) An unknown feline.
(c) An unknown canine.
(d) An unknown ape.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?

2. When Tennessee's bill passes, the ACLU runs a notice where, seeking a teacher willing to challenge the law?

3. Bryan involves himself in how many state anti-evolution proposals in 1923?

4. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?

5. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?

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