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

2. Darrow is likely the most famous U.S. trial lawyer by the 1920s, defending many famous clients including what Socialist labor leader in the late 1890s?
(a) Eugene V. Debs.
(b) Charles H. Corregan.
(c) Charles Matchett.
(d) Simon Winn.

3. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Geology, biology.
(c) Geology, the solar system.
(d) Biology, the solar system.

4. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?
(a) Foreign.
(b) Darwinian.
(c) Marxist.
(d) Atheistic.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In defending conscientious objectors and war protesters, National Civil Liberties Bureau activists see that what are not the same?

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

4. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?

5. On May 25, what does the grand jury hear?

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