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

2. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?
(a) Scopes ape trial.
(b) Scopes primate trial.
(c) Scopes monkey trial.
(d) Scopes gorilla trial.

3. After 1923, anti-evolutionists begin focusing on which state for legal action?
(a) Georgia.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Tennessee.

4. On Tuesday (14th), the judge lets a local pastors' association select subsequent ministers to pray, and they choose which?
(a) Fundamentalists.
(b) Alernate fundamentalists, conservatives.
(c) Conservatives.
(d) Alternate conservatives, modernists.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?

3. Larson's introduction serves as a preview of the Scopes trial and issues it raises for whom?

4. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?

5. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?

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