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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Darrow never specifically asks about what?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Bible.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Solar system.

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

3. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Charles Dawson.

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

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

6. It seems an irregular case as the ACLU is paying litigation costs, and the prosecution is acting under whom?
(a) ACLU.
(b) Fundamentalists.
(c) Southern Baptist minister.
(d) Charles Darwin.

7. When does John W. Butler propose it a misdemeanor to teach that man evolves, "from a lower order of animal" instead of the biblical account?
(a) 1919.
(b) A1921.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1925.

8. As it makes its way into the press, papers proclaim the Piltdown skull proves whose theory of evolution?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Charles Dawson.

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

10. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?
(a) Impede individual rights, liberties.
(b) Further federal rights, liberties.
(c) Promote state rights, liberties.
(d) Advance individual rights, liberties.

11. Darwin's view of random variations and survival-of-the-fittest pose problems for many Christians holding what view of nature?
(a) Biological.
(b) Teleological.
(c) Physiological.
(d) Geological.

12. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?
(a) All scriptural passages need interpretation.
(b) No scriptural passages need interpretation.
(c) Most scriptural passages need interpretation.
(d) Some scriptural passages need interpretation.

13. The initial bill, calling for a ban on teaching evolution in schools, results in defeat by how many votes in the state's House of Representatives?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

14. Dayton is an unlikely choice for the trial, as it is more rural, dwindling in numbers, and what?
(a) Has insufficient facilities for thousands of protestors.
(b) Lacks prior tensions about evolution teaching issue.
(c) Is without adequate facilities for thousands of spectators.
(d) Is deep withing the southern fundamental Christian Bible Belt.

15. Who is the presiding judge?
(a) Ben G. McKenzie.
(b) John T. Raulston.
(c) Tom Stewart.
(d) George W. Rappleyea.

Short Answer Questions

1. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?

2. After the war, the National Civil Liberties Bureau changes its name to what to reflect its new focus defending labor union activists?

3. Darrow is likely the most famous U.S. trial lawyer by the 1920s, defending many famous clients including what Socialist labor leader in the late 1890s?

4. The presiding judge wants an indictment as a conservative Christian, feeling a calling from God to officiate, and seeking what?

5. What does Bryan do in view of a literal Biblical interpretation and scientific facts when Darrow questions him?

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