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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 position does Bryan previously serve in, but later resign from?
(a) Secretary of State.
(b) Secretary of Education.
(c) Secretary of Treasury.
(d) Secretary of the Army.

2. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?
(a) Nearly all modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(b) Many fundamentalists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(c) Many modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(d) Many modernists oppose the war, and global affairs intervention.

3. Larson presents the leading players, Darrow and Bryan, and provides a sense of what between them?
(a) Respect, courtesy.
(b) Respect, professionalism.
(c) Antagonism, tension.
(d) Tension, professionalism.

4. As it makes its way into the press, papers proclaim the Piltdown skull proves whose theory of evolution?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Charles Dawson.
(d) Chevalier de Lamarck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Larson shows that helps put the ACLU into a position to test the Tennessee law and defend Scopes?

2. After the war, the cultural crisis grows worse for fundamentalists and they begin to take what action?

3. The Introduction focuses on questioning taking place on a wooden platform in what location?

4. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?

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

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