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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. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Charles Dawson.
(c) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(d) Charles Darwin.

2. Dayton is an unlikely choice for the trial, as it is more rural, dwindling in numbers, and what?
(a) Has insufficient facilities for thousands of protestors.
(b) Lacks prior tensions about evolution teaching issue.
(c) Is without adequate facilities for thousands of spectators.
(d) Is deep withing the southern fundamental Christian Bible Belt.

3. How many conservatives gather at the first World's Christian Fundamentals Association conference in 1919?
(a) 600,000.
(b) 60,000.
(c) 600.
(d) 6,000.

4. Most major newspapers take what position?
(a) Equal attention; express no opinion.
(b) Support defense.
(c) Equal attention to both sides; middle view.
(d) Support prosecution.

5. Most national politicians publicly choose what position on the trial?
(a) Their personal view.
(b) Straddle the fence.
(c) Fundamentalist.
(d) Modernist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dayton, between Knoxville and Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley, is in what part of Tennessee?

2. The state supreme court says the anti-evolution law only applies to employees in official roles and does not violate what?

3. Who is the presiding judge?

4. By ending the defense without a closing argument, Darrow averts 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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