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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Fundamentalists.
(d) Southern Baptist minister.

2. How many conservatives gather at the first World's Christian Fundamentals Association conference in 1919?
(a) 60,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 600.
(d) 600,000.

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

4. The ACLU sees Tennessee's law against teaching evolution as part of a systematic "assault" on personal liberty, starting with limitations when?
(a) Spanish-American War.
(b) World War I.
(c) Mexican-American War.
(d) U.S. Civil War.

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

6. After 1923, anti-evolutionists begin focusing on which state for legal action?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) South Carolina.

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

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

9. What is it that Larson shows that helps put the ACLU into a position to test the Tennessee law and defend Scopes?
(a) Locating a willing teacher.
(b) Its origins.
(c) That law holds a criminal penalty.
(d) Darrow agrees to defend.

10. 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, theologians.
(c) Clergy, natural scientists.
(d) Historians, geologists.

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

12. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?
(a) The judge terminates the questioning.
(b) Bryan refuses to leave the witness chair.
(c) Bryan acquiesces to the chief prosecutor's call.
(d) Darrow objects and states that he is not finished.

13. The National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1915.

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

15. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?
(a) Due to discoveries in experimental genus.
(b) Due to discoveries in experimental generics.
(c) Due to discoveries in experimental genetics.
(d) Due to discoveries in experimetal palentology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Offering to move the trial up, the presiding judge seeks to do what?

2. Scopes is the ideal defendant in many ways being young, single, shy, well-liked, and what else?

3. In addition to Florida, which state passes a minor resolution on the anti-evolution issue in 1923?

4. Which man, Darrow or Bryan, eventually backs down from the challenges the Scopes trial presents?

5. What summer does the title of Edward J. Larson's work refer to?

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