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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 is one ACLU concern with Darrow?
(a) He has not been practicing law for 10 years.
(b) He is too radical.
(c) He merely wants confrontation with Bryan.
(d) He only seeks publicity.

2. Larson's introduction serves as a preview of the Scopes trial and issues it raises for whom?
(a) Tennessee society.
(b) Teachers.
(c) School administrators.
(d) American society.

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

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

5. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?
(a) Scopes gorilla trial.
(b) Scopes primate trial.
(c) Scopes ape trial.
(d) Scopes monkey trial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two young attorneys agree to serve on the prosecution?

2. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?

3. In the 1920s, which denominational leaders stress the divine inspiration of the Bible and its literal interpretation?

4. Dayton, between Knoxville and Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley, is in what part of Tennessee?

5. Bryan hears of the proposal to ban teaching evolution, and as he supports the idea in talks and writing, he does what else?

(see the answer key)

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