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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. Middle ground exists between the modernists and fundamentalists, and it garners what amount of attention?
(a) Little.
(b) Moderate.
(c) Significant.
(d) Virtually none.

2. Which man, Darrow or Bryan, eventually backs down from the challenges the Scopes trial presents?
(a) Darrow.
(b) Both.
(c) Neither.
(d) Bryan.

3. Scopes leaves following the verdict to study where?
(a) University of Iowa.
(b) University of Tennessee.
(c) University of Chicago.
(d) Princeton University.

4. By ending the defense without a closing argument, Darrow averts what?
(a) Maximum fine imposition.
(b) Closing prosecution argument, maximum fine.
(c) Closing argument by Bryan, defense appeal.
(d) Possible hung jury, prolonging defense appeal.

5. In defending conscientious objectors and war protesters, National Civil Liberties Bureau activists see that what are not the same?
(a) Majority rule, freedom of education.
(b) Majority rule, freedom of spech.
(c) Majority rule, liberty.
(d) Majority rule, freedom of religion.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The defense challenges the anti-evolution statute's constitutionality on the second day using a motion to what?

4. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?

5. Why is Darrow's rebuttal critical when the prosecution argues that the majority should be able to decide what is taught?

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