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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. Under defense questioning, the students state that they were both still attending what?
(a) Church.
(b) Sunday school.
(c) Boy Scouts.
(d) High school.

2. Larson says that Darrow asks potential jurors if they know anything about evolution, think the Bible opposes it, and what third issue?
(a) See middle ground between Christianity, evolution.
(b) Can decide given case presented.
(c) Are bound by fundamentalism.
(d) Believe Scopes is guilty of a crime.

3. Larson presents the leading players, Darrow and Bryan, and provides a sense of what between them?
(a) Respect, courtesy.
(b) Antagonism, tension.
(c) Tension, professionalism.
(d) Respect, professionalism.

4. The jury deliberates how long before returning with a guilty verdict?
(a) 90 minutes.
(b) 1/2 day.
(c) 1 day.
(d) 9 minutes.

5. On Tuesday (14th), the judge lets a local pastors' association select subsequent ministers to pray, and they choose which?
(a) Alternate conservatives, modernists.
(b) Conservatives.
(c) Fundamentalists.
(d) Alernate fundamentalists, conservatives.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Tennessee newspapers see the trial as what?

3. It seems an irregular case as the ACLU is paying litigation costs, and the prosecution is acting under whom?

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

5. Larson shows that how many theories of evolutionary development fit nicely within a Christian explanation of the world?

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