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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. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?
(a) Affords background of Darrow, Bryan.
(b) Outlines subsequent chapters.
(c) Provides an overview of evolutionary theory.
(d) Draws readers in, frames the rest of his work.

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

3. Larson presents the leading players, Darrow and Bryan, and provides a sense of what between them?
(a) Antagonism, tension.
(b) Respect, professionalism.
(c) Respect, courtesy.
(d) Tension, professionalism.

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

5. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?
(a) The Bible is not factual..
(b) The Bible has no place in the public schools.
(c) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach history.
(d) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach nature, science.

Short Answer Questions

1. Academic freedom has always been a concern for the ACLU, as it relates to what?

2. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?

3. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?

4. Larson says the defense strategy of calling a prosecutor to the stand to testify as a hostile witness is what?

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

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