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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. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?
(a) Historians, theologians.
(b) Historians, geologists.
(c) Historians, writers.
(d) Clergy, natural scientists.

2. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?
(a) Geology, the solar system.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Geology, biology.
(d) Biology, the solar system.

3. What does Bryan do in view of a literal Biblical interpretation and scientific facts when Darrow questions him?
(a) Refuses to answer some questions.
(b) Maintains his literal Biblical view.
(c) Concedes this critical point.
(d) States that scientific assumptions are often disproved.

4. After defeat of the first bill for a ban on teaching evolution, Bryan argues that who should decide what is taught?
(a) Courts.
(b) School boards.
(c) Taxpayers.
(d) Parents.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Greater student numbers plus the growing fundamentalist movement means conservative Christian parents find what is coming into conflict?

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

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

4. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?

5. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?

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