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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As desire for academic freedom spreads to high schools, the ACLU defends teachers and what else?
(a) Organizes local civil protests.
(b) Publishes statements on the issue.
(c) Makes appeals to state supreme courts.
(d) Makes appeals to school boards.

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

3. 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) Teleological.
(d) Physiological.

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

5. The anti-evolution movement develops during the 1920s as it does due to Bryan's leadership and what else?
(a) Fundamentalists' opposition to modernism.
(b) Fundamentalists' opposition to conservative Christianity.
(c) Modernists' strong support of conservative Christianity.
(d) Fundamentalists' support of modernism.

6. Why does Darrow volunteer to defend Scopes beyond believing teachers should be able to instruct evolution?
(a) Feels concern for Scopes.
(b) Wants to debate Bryan.
(c) Needs national publicity.
(d) Seeks freedom of public education.

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

8. Larson shows that how many theories of evolutionary development fit nicely within a Christian explanation of the world?
(a) Nearly all.
(b) Most.
(c) Some.
(d) Virtually none.

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

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

11. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?
(a) Christian Scientists.
(b) Lutherans.
(c) Roman Catholics.
(d) Fundamentalist Christians.

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

13. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?
(a) Texts include more political science.
(b) Texts include more modern history.
(c) Texts include more revolutionary theory.
(d) Texts include evolutionary theory.

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

15. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?
(a) Scopes ape trial.
(b) Scopes primate trial.
(c) Scopes monkey trial.
(d) Scopes gorilla trial.

Short Answer Questions

1. After 1923, anti-evolutionists begin focusing on which state for legal action?

2. Talk of evolution and new fossil finds have anti-evolutionists responding how beyond calling for teaching limits?

3. What is one ACLU concern with Darrow?

4. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?

5. Which New Yorker, originally with a chemical engineering doctorate, sees a way to challenge the anti-evolution law?

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