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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 begins to believe that the trial needs to exclude any discussion on what?
(a) Biology itself.
(b) Bible itself.
(c) Evolution itself.
(d) Christianity itself.

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

3. Over a century before the Piltdown skull find, who argues that environmental changes may affect biological makeup, and changes pass down to offspring?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Charles Dawson.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Chevalier de Lamarck.

4. Bryan immediately goes on the offense for his crusade, revising what would have been his closing argument into what?
(a) A fiery speech.
(b) An argument to counter an appeal.
(c) A legal request for anti-evolution laws in other states.
(d) A debate platform.

5. The defense opens with Maynard M. Metcalf, a witness whose expertise is in what field?
(a) Geology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Zoology.
(d) Physiology.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many high school students testify that Scopes once discussed human evolution with them?

2. Most major newspapers take what position?

3. What is it that Larson shows that helps put the ACLU into a position to test the Tennessee law and defend Scopes?

4. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?

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

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