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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. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?
(a) Darwinian.
(b) Marxist.
(c) Foreign.
(d) Atheistic.

2. The Tennessee Supreme Court takes what action regarding Scopes' conviction?
(a) Sustains.
(b) Reverts to lower court.
(c) Overturns.
(d) Upholds.

3. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?
(a) Promote state rights, liberties.
(b) Advance individual rights, liberties.
(c) Further federal rights, liberties.
(d) Impede individual rights, liberties.

4. Under cross-examination, White admits that who officially adopts the text?
(a) School board textbook committee.
(b) County textbook commission.
(c) Municipal textbook commission.
(d) State textbook commission.

5. Futile attempts of the ACLU in cases before Scopes' trial are likely because of what general attitude during and directly after World War I?
(a) Anticommunism, fundamentalism.
(b) Fundamentalism, patriotism.
(c) Anticommunism, patriotism.
(d) Antisocialism, capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attends a sermon Bryan gives in Dayton on Sunday (12th) immediately after the first trial date?

2. Darrow seeks an early ruling on whether scientific experts may testify, and the judge says he will hear the issue when?

3. In June 1925, Scopes meets with which three well-known scientists who help shape public response to his trial?

4. Darwin's view of random variations and survival-of-the-fittest pose problems for many Christians holding what view of nature?

5. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?

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