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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. Only Yesterday is written by Harper's editor Frederick Lewis Allen and published in which year?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1951.

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

3. What summer does the title of Edward J. Larson's work refer to?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1919.

4. Darrow is what for contempt due to comments he makes the previous Friday; charges the judge dismisses when he apologizes?
(a) Fined.
(b) Jailed.
(c) Cited.
(d) Arrested.

5. In what state do legislators pass a measure that would facilitate teaching creationism in public schools?
(a) Minnesota..
(b) California.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bryan's view regarding World War I?

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

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

4. That weekend (11th-12th), most prosecutors go where?

5. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?

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