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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. Bryan leaves legal issues to the other lawyers and assumes responsibility to do what?
(a) Find theologians, clergy to testify.
(b) Find scientists, theologians to testify.
(c) Find scientists, attorneys to testify.
(d) Find scholars, scientists to testify.

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

3. Larson illustrates how collective memories of events do what?
(a) Do not change much over time.
(b) Become essentially forgotten.
(c) Change over time.
(d) Change limitedly in socio-political context over time.

4. In addition to Florida, which state passes a minor resolution on the anti-evolution issue in 1923?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Oklahoma.

5. The jury lets the judge impose the minimum fine of how much?
(a) $10.
(b) $100.
(c) $1.
(d) $250.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In defending conscientious objectors and war protesters, National Civil Liberties Bureau activists see that what are not the same?

3. In what state do legislators pass a measure that would facilitate teaching creationism in public schools?

4. Prosecutors open by briefly arguing that Scopes violates the law by teaching that humans evolve from other life forms and what?

5. The anti-evolution crusade continues for a period after the trial, but fundamentalist political activity declines by when?

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