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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After the war, the cultural crisis grows worse for fundamentalists and they begin to take what action?
(a) Social.
(b) Terrorist.
(c) Revolutionary.
(d) Religious.

3. 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) Children's faith, education.
(c) Parents' faith, children's beliefs.
(d) Parents' education, faith.

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

5. The presiding judge wants an indictment as a conservative Christian, feeling a calling from God to officiate, and seeking what?
(a) Innocent ruling.
(b) Justice.
(c) Publicity.
(d) Guilty ruling.

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

7. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?
(a) Atheistic.
(b) Marxist.
(c) Darwinian.
(d) Foreign.

8. The text Scopes has been using while filling in for the regular biology teacher has what approval?
(a) School board.
(b) Municipal.
(c) County.
(d) State.

9. Academic freedom has always been a concern for the ACLU, as it relates to what?
(a) Freedom of speech.
(b) Freedom of religion.
(c) Freedom of research.
(d) Freedom of education.

10. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?
(a) Charles Dawson.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Chevalier de Lamarck.

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

12. Despite its rise, the anti-evolution movement lacks a clear, specific legal or political issue until when?
(a) Early 1925.
(b) Early 1924.
(c) Late 1923.
(d) Late 1921.

13. In 1925, Dayton Tennessee is what type of town?
(a) Relatively old.
(b) Very new.
(c) Very old.
(d) Relatively new.

14. Who asks some of Scopes' students to testify against him even though they are reluctant to?
(a) Scopes.
(b) Bryan.
(c) Rappleyea.
(d) Darrow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?

2. The combination of what laws result in more students remaining in school beyond the elementary level?

3. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?

4. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?

5. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?

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