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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. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?
(a) Major.
(b) Minor.
(c) Local.
(d) Sporadic.

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

3. In the 1920s, which denominational leaders stress the divine inspiration of the Bible and its literal interpretation?
(a) Baptist, Lutheran.
(b) Presbyterian, Methodist.
(c) Baptist, Presbyterian.
(d) Christian Science, Roman Catholic.

4. Which man, Darrow or Bryan, eventually backs down from the challenges the Scopes trial presents?
(a) Both.
(b) Bryan.
(c) Neither.
(d) Darrow.

5. Despite its rise, the anti-evolution movement lacks a clear, specific legal or political issue until when?
(a) Early 1924.
(b) Late 1921.
(c) Early 1925.
(d) Late 1923.

Short Answer Questions

1. Larson shows that how many theories of evolutionary development fit nicely within a Christian explanation of the world?

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

3. Larson presents the leading players, Darrow and Bryan, and provides a sense of what between them?

4. Why does Darrow volunteer to defend Scopes beyond believing teachers should be able to instruct evolution?

5. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?

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