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

2. In defending conscientious objectors and war protesters, National Civil Liberties Bureau activists see that what are not the same?
(a) Majority rule, freedom of education.
(b) Majority rule, freedom of religion.
(c) Majority rule, freedom of spech.
(d) Majority rule, liberty.

3. 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) Promote state rights, liberties.
(d) Further federal rights, liberties.

4. Darrow grows to see evolutionary theory as a way of doing what?
(a) Debunking biblical accounts of divine creation, design.
(b) Achieving Scopes' clearance of the criminal charges.
(c) Supporting the ACLU leaders in garnering their initial victory.
(d) Guaranteeing American civil liberty of freedom of speech.

5. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?
(a) Physical.
(b) Bible reading.
(c) Religious.
(d) Patriotic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which man, Darrow or Bryan, eventually backs down from the challenges the Scopes trial presents?

2. Talk of evolution and new fossil finds have anti-evolutionists responding how beyond calling for teaching limits?

3. Academic freedom has always been a concern for the ACLU, as it relates to what?

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

5. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?

(see the answer key)

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