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

2. Why does Darrow volunteer to defend Scopes beyond believing teachers should be able to instruct evolution?
(a) Feels concern for Scopes.
(b) Needs national publicity.
(c) Wants to debate Bryan.
(d) Seeks freedom of public education.

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

4. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?
(a) Physical.
(b) Patriotic.
(c) Bible reading.
(d) Religious.

5. The person who has been debating Bryan over the years increases his efforts to show what as the trial nears?
(a) Evolution is proven as shown in school texts.
(b) Evolution's incompatibility with Christianity.
(c) Bryan's position on evolution is mythical.
(d) Evolution's compatibility with Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?

2. Universities begin incorporating tenure and academic freedom to protect the freedom of what?

3. Jurors leave the courtroom again, and both sides argue admissibility of expert testimony on evolution for how long?

4. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?

5. What body in Alabama requires that texts carry a disclaimer that evolution is a controversial theory?

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