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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. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Charles Dawson.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Chevalier de Lamarck.

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

3. 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) Charles Matchett.
(b) Simon Winn.
(c) Charles H. Corregan.
(d) Eugene V. Debs.

4. Which two young attorneys agree to serve on the prosecution?
(a) Ben G. McKenzie, John T. Raulston.
(b) John T. Raulston, George W. Rappleyea.
(c) Herbert E. Hicks, Sue K. Hicks.
(d) Herbert E. Hicks, George W. Rappleyea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks some of Scopes' students to testify against him even though they are reluctant to?

2. After defeat of the first bill for a ban on teaching evolution, Bryan argues that who should decide what is taught?

3. Bryan offers his services to the prosecution in mid-May despite not having been practicing law for how long?

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

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

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