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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. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?
(a) Jesus' inner circle of disciples.
(b) Old Testament miracles.
(c) New Testament miracles.
(d) Book of Revelation.

2. Bryan offers his services to the prosecution in mid-May despite not having been practicing law for how long?
(a) Over 25 years.
(b) Over 15 years.
(c) Over 30 years.
(d) Over 20 years.

3. The presiding judge wants an indictment as a conservative Christian, feeling a calling from God to officiate, and seeking what?
(a) Publicity.
(b) Innocent ruling.
(c) Guilty ruling.
(d) Justice.

4. What summer does the title of Edward J. Larson's work refer to?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1924.

5. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?
(a) Major.
(b) Minor.
(c) Local.
(d) Sporadic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?

3. As it makes its way into the press, papers proclaim the Piltdown skull proves whose theory of evolution?

4. Paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels the Piltdown skull from a new species from what extinct primate?

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

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