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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. The National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1917.

2. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?
(a) Account of only lives on Noah's ark surviving a great flood is literal.
(b) Accounts of human life spans of hundreds of years are literal.
(c) Account of six days is symbolic rather than literal.
(d) Account of six days is literal rather than symbolic.

3. 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) Declines to make a statement.
(c) Maintains that the text Scopes uses has school approval.
(d) Readily concedes that Scopes teaches human evolution.

4. The author identifies the timing of the anti-evolution movement of the 1920s is due in part to what?
(a) Growth of public, private schools.
(b) College growth.
(c) Growth of public schools.
(d) Growth of private schools.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The ACLU sees Tennessee's law against teaching evolution as part of a systematic "assault" on personal liberty, starting with limitations when?

2. What is Bryan's view regarding World War I?

3. Futile attempts of the ACLU in cases before Scopes' trial are likely because of what general attitude during and directly after World War I?

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

5. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?

(see the answer key)

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