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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 8 The End of an Era.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bryan leaves legal issues to the other lawyers and assumes responsibility to do what?
(a) Find scientists, theologians to testify.
(b) Find scholars, scientists to testify.
(c) Find scientists, attorneys to testify.
(d) Find theologians, clergy to testify.

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

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

4. Scopes is the ideal defendant in many ways being young, single, shy, well-liked, and what else?
(a) Can offer soapbox replies about evolution.
(b) Willing to pursue postgraduate studies in law.
(c) Having little to lose.
(d) Plans to publish book about the trial.

5. Prosecutors open by briefly arguing that Scopes violates the law by teaching that humans evolve from other life forms and what?
(a) Scopes does not believe in the Bible.
(b) This cannot be taught with the biblical account of creation.
(c) This denies the biblical account of creation.
(d) Scopes knew that teaching evolution violates the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although the prosecution has seen the law upheld, what does the defense believe?

2. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?

3. Internal conflict, confusion, and maneuvering characterize which side in the days before the state supreme court hears the case?

4. Tennessee outlaws teaching that denies the biblical account of creation, so the defense wants to show what?

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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