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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 7 The Trial of the Century.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most national politicians publicly choose what position on the trial?
(a) Fundamentalist.
(b) Their personal view.
(c) Modernist.
(d) Straddle the fence.

2. Universities begin incorporating tenure and academic freedom to protect the freedom of what?
(a) Education, research.
(b) Speech, research.
(c) Religion, speech.
(d) Speech, education.

3. Both sides use the media in attempts to throw off the other. How?
(a) Both sides broadcasting as much as possible to confuse.
(b) Keeping quiet or broadcasting everything possible.
(c) Keeping quiet or broadcasting virtually all falsely.
(d) Both sides broadcasting much falsely to confuse.

4. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?
(a) Sporadic.
(b) Local.
(c) Major.
(d) Minor.

5. It seems an irregular case as the ACLU is paying litigation costs, and the prosecution is acting under whom?
(a) ACLU.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Southern Baptist minister.
(d) Fundamentalists.

Short Answer Questions

1. The scene that the author refers to in his Introduction is said to be reminiscent of what dramatic scenes?

2. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?

3. The person who has been debating Bryan over the years increases his efforts to show what as the trial nears?

4. On what grounds does Darrow argue that the statute is illegal, given that it imposes a specific religious stance?

5. After the war, the cultural crisis grows worse for fundamentalists and they begin to take what action?

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