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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. Greater student numbers plus the growing fundamentalist movement means conservative Christian parents find what is coming into conflict?
(a) Parents' faith, children's education.
(b) Parents' education, faith.
(c) Children's faith, education.
(d) Parents' faith, children's beliefs.

2. Allen's account of Darrow questioning Bryan reconstructs the events and transforms them into a defeat for what?
(a) Christian fundamentalism.
(b) Human evolution.
(c) Any Christian view of creation.
(d) Law banning teaching of evolution.

3. Paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels the Piltdown skull from a new species from what extinct primate?
(a) Eolith.
(b) Eosinophil.
(c) Eoanthropus dasoni.
(d) Eohippus.

4. Scopes leaves following the verdict to study where?
(a) University of Tennessee.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) University of Iowa.

5. Bryan concedes that he interprets the Bible and at times, he does not know the answers to what?
(a) Biblical questions Darrow raises.
(b) Biological questions Darrow raises.
(c) Zoological questions Darrow raises.
(d) Evolution questions Darrow raises.

Short Answer Questions

1. Journalists covering the case note that what is lacking between the prosecution and defense?

2. Dayton, between Knoxville and Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley, is in what part of Tennessee?

3. As it makes its way into the press, papers proclaim the Piltdown skull proves whose theory of evolution?

4. Fundamentalism does not die after the Scopes' trial, but the political scene shifts as Americans embrace what view?

5. The author identifies the timing of the anti-evolution movement of the 1920s is due in part to what?

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