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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Talk of evolution and new fossil finds have anti-evolutionists responding how beyond calling for teaching limits?
(a) Many note the teaching compatability of science, Christianity.
(b) Some decry the fossils as frauds, challenge their antiquity.
(c) Most strive for equal time instructing evolution, the Bible.
(d) Numerous seek requisite Bible teaching in public schools.

2. Darrow defends John Scopes for violating which laws, saying evolution cannot be taught in public schools?
(a) County.
(b) Federal.
(c) State.
(d) Municipal.

3. The author identifies the timing of the anti-evolution movement of the 1920s is due in part to what?
(a) Growth of public, private schools.
(b) Growth of private schools.
(c) Growth of public schools.
(d) College growth.

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

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

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

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

8. What does the jaw for the Piltdown skull appear to be of?
(a) An unknown ape.
(b) An underdeveloped bear.
(c) An unknown feline.
(d) An unknown canine.

9. What do modernists argue matters regarding the accounts within biblical scriptures?
(a) Precision; unerring historical accuracy.
(b) Interpretation; application to children's education.
(c) Understanding; application to people's needs.
(d) Precision; unerring scientific accuracy.

10. What does John Randolph Neal do while serving as the primary defense at a preliminary hearing on May 9?
(a) Maintains that the text Scopes uses has school approval.
(b) Readily concedes that Scopes teaches human evolution.
(c) Declines to make a statement.
(d) Maintains that Scopes' teaching does not conflict with biblical accounts.

11. 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) A1921.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1923.

12. Offering to move the trial up, the presiding judge seeks to do what?
(a) Avoiding publicity, unfair trial atmosphere.
(b) Limiting time for defense preparation.
(c) Avoid conflicting with the school session.
(d) Ensuring fair trial proceedings, justice.

13. By 1925, the ACLU still seeks a court win, mainly as the first amendment's wording does not necessarily protect freedom of speech at what level?
(a) County.
(b) Federal.
(c) Municipal.
(d) State.

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

15. After defeat of the first bill for a ban on teaching evolution, Bryan argues that who should decide what is taught?
(a) Parents.
(b) School boards.
(c) Taxpayers.
(d) Courts.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1920s, which denominational leaders stress the divine inspiration of the Bible and its literal interpretation?

2. As desire for academic freedom spreads to high schools, the ACLU defends teachers and what else?

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

4. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?

5. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?

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