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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 10 Distant Echoes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As desire for academic freedom spreads to high schools, the ACLU defends teachers and what else?
(a) Organizes local civil protests.
(b) Publishes statements on the issue.
(c) Makes appeals to state supreme courts.
(d) Makes appeals to school boards.

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

3. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?
(a) Accounts of human life spans of hundreds of years are literal.
(b) Account of six days is symbolic rather than literal.
(c) Account of only lives on Noah's ark surviving a great flood is literal.
(d) Account of six days is literal rather than symbolic.

4. Who attends a sermon Bryan gives in Dayton on Sunday (12th) immediately after the first trial date?
(a) Darrow.
(b) Scopes.
(c) Most of the jury.
(d) Presiding judge.

5. Talk of evolution and new fossil finds have anti-evolutionists responding how beyond calling for teaching limits?
(a) Most strive for equal time instructing evolution, the Bible.
(b) Numerous seek requisite Bible teaching in public schools.
(c) Many note the teaching compatability of science, Christianity.
(d) Some decry the fossils as frauds, challenge their antiquity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Offering to move the trial up, the presiding judge seeks to do what?

2. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?

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

4. Superintendent White testifies that Scopes does what?

5. Larson says that Darrow asks potential jurors if they know anything about evolution, think the Bible opposes it, and what third issue?

(see the answer key)

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