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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. Over a century before the Piltdown skull find, who argues that environmental changes may affect biological makeup, and changes pass down to offspring?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(d) Charles Dawson.

2. The text Scopes has been using while filling in for the regular biology teacher has what approval?
(a) Municipal.
(b) County.
(c) School board.
(d) State.

3. After the war, the National Civil Liberties Bureau changes its name to what to reflect its new focus defending labor union activists?
(a) American Civilian Legal Union (ACLU).
(b) American Civil Liberty Unit (ACLU).
(c) American Civilian Liberties Unity (ACLU).
(d) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

4. The ACLU sees Tennessee's law against teaching evolution as part of a systematic "assault" on personal liberty, starting with limitations when?
(a) U.S. Civil War.
(b) World War I.
(c) Spanish-American War.
(d) Mexican-American War.

5. After the war, the cultural crisis grows worse for fundamentalists and they begin to take what action?
(a) Social.
(b) Revolutionary.
(c) Terrorist.
(d) Religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?

2. Why does Darrow volunteer to defend Scopes beyond believing teachers should be able to instruct evolution?

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

4. The Introduction focuses on questioning taking place on a wooden platform in what location?

5. What is it that Larson shows that helps put the ACLU into a position to test the Tennessee law and defend Scopes?

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