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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. Because of the high publicity, how do the potential jurors feel?
(a) Virtually none want to be on jury.
(b) Most unsure if they want to be on jury.
(c) Virtually all want to be on jury.
(d) Roughly half want to be on jury.

2. The National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1917.

3. The Introduction focuses on questioning taking place on a wooden platform in what location?
(a) Courtroom.
(b) Courthouse lawn.
(c) City Hall.
(d) Municiplal Auditorium.

4. Darrow defends John Scopes for violating which laws, saying evolution cannot be taught in public schools?
(a) Federal.
(b) County.
(c) State.
(d) Municipal.

5. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?
(a) Many modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(b) Nearly all modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(c) Many modernists oppose the war, and global affairs intervention.
(d) Many fundamentalists support the war, and global affairs intervention.

Short Answer Questions

1. Darrow is what for contempt due to comments he makes the previous Friday; charges the judge dismisses when he apologizes?

2. That weekend (11th-12th), most prosecutors go where?

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

4. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?

5. Bryan concedes that he interprets the Bible and at times, he does not know the answers to what?

(see the answer key)

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