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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 anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?
(a) Texts include more political science.
(b) Texts include more revolutionary theory.
(c) Texts include more modern history.
(d) Texts include evolutionary theory.

2. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Charles Dawson.

3. After defeat of the first bill for a ban on teaching evolution, Bryan argues that who should decide what is taught?
(a) Parents.
(b) Taxpayers.
(c) Courts.
(d) School boards.

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

5. Larson says the defense strategy of calling a prosecutor to the stand to testify as a hostile witness is what?
(a) Clever.
(b) Smart.
(c) Twisted.
(d) Inevitable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?

2. By 1925, the ACLU still seeks a court win, mainly as the first amendment's wording does not necessarily protect freedom of speech at what level?

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

4. Darrow grows to see evolutionary theory as a way of doing what?

5. As desire for academic freedom spreads to high schools, the ACLU defends teachers and what else?

(see the answer key)

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