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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. Who asks some of Scopes' students to testify against him even though they are reluctant to?
(a) Rappleyea.
(b) Scopes.
(c) Darrow.
(d) Bryan.

2. Bryan offers his services to the prosecution in mid-May despite not having been practicing law for how long?
(a) Over 30 years.
(b) Over 20 years.
(c) Over 15 years.
(d) Over 25 years.

3. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?
(a) Charles Dawson.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Chevalier de Lamarck.

4. As desire for academic freedom spreads to high schools, the ACLU defends teachers and what else?
(a) Makes appeals to state supreme courts.
(b) Makes appeals to school boards.
(c) Publishes statements on the issue.
(d) Organizes local civil protests.

5. What summer does the title of Edward J. Larson's work refer to?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the presiding judge?

2. Darrow never specifically asks about what?

3. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?

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

5. Defense counters that the prosecution's opening is all a matter of interpretation and what?

(see the answer key)

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