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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 never specifically asks about what?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Solar system.
(c) Bible.
(d) Prayer.

2. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?
(a) Advance individual rights, liberties.
(b) Impede individual rights, liberties.
(c) Further federal rights, liberties.
(d) Promote state rights, liberties.

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

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

5. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?
(a) Account of six days is symbolic rather than literal.
(b) Accounts of human life spans of hundreds of years are literal.
(c) Account of only lives on Noah's ark surviving a great flood is literal.
(d) Account of six days is literal rather than symbolic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do modernists argue matters regarding the accounts within biblical scriptures?

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

3. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?

4. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?

5. When does John W. Butler propose it a misdemeanor to teach that man evolves, "from a lower order of animal" instead of the biblical account?

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