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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. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?
(a) Foreign.
(b) Atheistic.
(c) Darwinian.
(d) Marxist.

2. What is one ACLU concern with Darrow?
(a) He is too radical.
(b) He only seeks publicity.
(c) He has not been practicing law for 10 years.
(d) He merely wants confrontation with Bryan.

3. Which New Yorker, originally with a chemical engineering doctorate, sees a way to challenge the anti-evolution law?
(a) Tom Stewart.
(b) Ben G. McKenzie.
(c) George W. Rappleyea.
(d) John T. Raulston.

4. Darrow tries to find jurors who profess what?
(a) Not bound to fundamentalism.
(b) Accept evolution.
(c) An open mind.
(d) Whether or not a conservative Christian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bryan offers his services to the prosecution in mid-May despite not having been practicing law for how long?

2. What else pushes evolution to the forefront of public debate in the early 1920s?

3. About how many reporters cover the trial from Dayton?

4. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?

5. The public displays what regarding formal debates over support and opposition to the evolution theory?

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