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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After the war, the National Civil Liberties Bureau changes its name to what to reflect its new focus defending labor union activists?
(a) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
(b) American Civilian Legal Union (ACLU).
(c) American Civilian Liberties Unity (ACLU).
(d) American Civil Liberty Unit (ACLU).

3. Because of the shape and size of the Piltdown skull, scientists at that time believe it is a what?
(a) Homoousian.
(b) Hominoid.
(c) Homocysteine.
(d) Homogenate,

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

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

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

7. Universities begin incorporating tenure and academic freedom to protect the freedom of what?
(a) Speech, research.
(b) Speech, education.
(c) Education, research.
(d) Religion, speech.

8. Darrow's practice shifts slowly to criminal law where he often seeks to challenge traditional ideologies of what?
(a) Morality, nihilism.
(b) Morality, agnosticism.
(c) Amorality, humanity.
(d) Morality, religion.

9. Larson says the defense strategy of calling a prosecutor to the stand to testify as a hostile witness is what?
(a) Clever.
(b) Twisted.
(c) Inevitable.
(d) Smart.

10. What is Bryan's view regarding World War I?
(a) U.S. should support Germany.
(b) It is a sign of the end times.
(c) U.S. should support England.
(d) U.S. should support Prussia.

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

12. On May 25, what does the grand jury hear?
(a) Only the prosecution's arguments.
(b) Arguments of the prosecution, defense.
(c) Questioning of students by the defense.
(d) Questioning of Scopes by the prosecution.

13. 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 Scopes' teaching does not conflict with biblical accounts.
(c) Readily concedes that Scopes teaches human evolution.
(d) Maintains that the text Scopes uses has school approval.

14. 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) John T. Raulston.
(d) Ben G. McKenzie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?

2. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?

3. What position does Bryan previously serve in, but later resign from?

4. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?

5. Despite its rise, the anti-evolution movement lacks a clear, specific legal or political issue until when?

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