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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. The author identifies the timing of the anti-evolution movement of the 1920s is due in part to what?
(a) Growth of public schools.
(b) College growth.
(c) Growth of public, private schools.
(d) Growth of private schools.

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

3. Universities begin incorporating tenure and academic freedom to protect the freedom of what?
(a) Religion, speech.
(b) Speech, education.
(c) Education, research.
(d) Speech, research.

4. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?
(a) Due to discoveries in experimetal palentology.
(b) Due to discoveries in experimental genus.
(c) Due to discoveries in experimental genetics.
(d) Due to discoveries in experimental generics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?

2. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?

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

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

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

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