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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 4 Choosing Sides.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John Randolph Neal do while serving as the primary defense at a preliminary hearing on May 9?
(a) Maintains that Scopes' teaching does not conflict with biblical accounts.
(b) Maintains that the text Scopes uses has school approval.
(c) Readily concedes that Scopes teaches human evolution.
(d) Declines to make a statement.

2. Bryan hears of the proposal to ban teaching evolution, and as he supports the idea in talks and writing, he does what else?
(a) Addresses the state Senate.
(b) Addresses joint sessions of the state's legislature.
(c) Avoids addressing governmental bodies.
(d) Addresses the state House of Representatives.

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

4. Scopes is the ideal defendant in many ways being young, single, shy, well-liked, and what else?
(a) Having little to lose.
(b) Can offer soapbox replies about evolution.
(c) Plans to publish book about the trial.
(d) Willing to pursue postgraduate studies in law.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?

2. Offering to move the trial up, the presiding judge seeks to do what?

3. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?

4. Larson's introduction serves as a preview of the Scopes trial and issues it raises for whom?

5. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?

(see the answer key)

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