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

2. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?
(a) Nearly all modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(b) Many modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(c) Many modernists oppose the war, and global affairs intervention.
(d) Many fundamentalists support the war, and global affairs intervention.

3. On May 25, what does the grand jury hear?
(a) Questioning of students by the defense.
(b) Arguments of the prosecution, defense.
(c) Only the prosecution's arguments.
(d) Questioning of Scopes by the prosecution.

4. Talk of evolution and new fossil finds have anti-evolutionists responding how beyond calling for teaching limits?
(a) Some decry the fossils as frauds, challenge their antiquity.
(b) Most strive for equal time instructing evolution, the Bible.
(c) Numerous seek requisite Bible teaching in public schools.
(d) Many note the teaching compatability of science, Christianity.

5. Another ACLU worry, if both Darrow and Bryan work on the trial, is that it would become a clash between what?
(a) Religion, anti-religion.
(b) Science, religion.
(c) Liberals, conservatives.
(d) Fundamentalism, modernism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do modernists argue matters regarding the accounts within biblical scriptures?

2. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?

3. In 1925, Dayton Tennessee is what type of town?

4. When Tennessee's bill passes, the ACLU runs a notice where, seeking a teacher willing to challenge the law?

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

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