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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. The ACLU sees Tennessee's law against teaching evolution as part of a systematic "assault" on personal liberty, starting with limitations when?
(a) Mexican-American War.
(b) World War I.
(c) U.S. Civil War.
(d) Spanish-American War.

2. What does John Randolph Neal do while serving as the primary defense at a preliminary hearing on May 9?
(a) Maintains that Scopes' teaching does not conflict with biblical accounts.
(b) Maintains that the text Scopes uses has school approval.
(c) Declines to make a statement.
(d) Readily concedes that Scopes teaches human evolution.

3. Bryan begins to believe that the trial needs to exclude any discussion on what?
(a) Evolution itself.
(b) Christianity itself.
(c) Bible itself.
(d) Biology itself.

4. The initial bill, calling for a ban on teaching evolution in schools, results in defeat by how many votes in the state's House of Representatives?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the same grand jury that convened several months prior now returning?

2. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?

3. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?

4. In the 1920s, which denominational leaders stress the divine inspiration of the Bible and its literal interpretation?

5. Sunday afternoon (12th), Bryan gives a speech outside the court, but he cannot speak about what issue there?

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