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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. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?
(a) Most scriptural passages need interpretation.
(b) Some scriptural passages need interpretation.
(c) All scriptural passages need interpretation.
(d) No scriptural passages need interpretation.

2. 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) Parents.
(d) Taxpayers.

3. After the war, the cultural crisis grows worse for fundamentalists and they begin to take what action?
(a) Revolutionary.
(b) Terrorist.
(c) Religious.
(d) Social.

4. How many conservatives gather at the first World's Christian Fundamentals Association conference in 1919?
(a) 600.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 60,000.
(d) 600,000.

5. 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, writers.
(c) Clergy, natural scientists.
(d) Historians, geologists.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1925, the ACLU still seeks a court win, mainly as the first amendment's wording does not necessarily protect freedom of speech at what level?

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

3. In addition to Florida, which state passes a minor resolution on the anti-evolution issue in 1923?

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

5. The ACLU sees Tennessee's law against teaching evolution as part of a systematic "assault" on personal liberty, starting with limitations when?

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