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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. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?
(a) Bryan acquiesces to the chief prosecutor's call.
(b) Darrow objects and states that he is not finished.
(c) Bryan refuses to leave the witness chair.
(d) The judge terminates the questioning.

2. The trial opens on Friday. What is the date?
(a) May 10, 1925.
(b) July 10, 1925.
(c) June 10, 1925.
(d) August 10, 1925.

3. On Wednesday (15th), the judge recalls the jurors and instructs each side to do what?
(a) Examine, cross-examine the first witness.
(b) Enter items into evidence.
(c) Call opening witnesses in turn.
(d) Give opening statements.

4. Tennessee outlaws teaching that denies the biblical account of creation, so the defense wants to show what?
(a) Biblical interpretations differ.
(b) Biblical interpretations, evolution theory are compatible.
(c) Evolution theory is proven, biblical interpretations differ.
(d) Biblical interpretations are inaccurate.

5. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?
(a) Clergy, natural scientists.
(b) Historians, theologians.
(c) Historians, geologists.
(d) Historians, writers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?

2. When does the state teachers' organization initiate a lawsuit to challenge an Arkansas anti-evolution statute?

3. Academic freedom has always been a concern for the ACLU, as it relates to what?

4. Debates show that many who doubt the evolution theory feel how as to its inclusion in school curricula?

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

(see the answer key)

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