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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?
(a) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach history.
(b) The Bible has no place in the public schools.
(c) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach nature, science.
(d) The Bible is not factual..

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

3. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?
(a) Nearly all modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(b) Many modernists oppose the war, and global affairs intervention.
(c) Many fundamentalists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(d) Many modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.

4. The scene that the author refers to in his Introduction is said to be reminiscent of what dramatic scenes?
(a) Stage, movie.
(b) Stage, TV.
(c) Movie, TV.
(d) Radio, TV.

5. Journalists covering the case note that what is lacking between the prosecution and defense?
(a) Admiration, respect.
(b) Hostility, tension.
(c) Professionalism, animosity.
(d) Bickering, admiration.

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

7. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?
(a) Impede individual rights, liberties.
(b) Further federal rights, liberties.
(c) Promote state rights, liberties.
(d) Advance individual rights, liberties.

8. The Introduction focuses on questioning taking place on a wooden platform in what location?
(a) Courthouse lawn.
(b) Courtroom.
(c) City Hall.
(d) Municiplal Auditorium.

9. 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) Fundamentalist Christians.
(d) Roman Catholics.

10. Larson presents the leading players, Darrow and Bryan, and provides a sense of what between them?
(a) Respect, courtesy.
(b) Antagonism, tension.
(c) Respect, professionalism.
(d) Tension, professionalism.

11. Dayton is an unlikely choice for the trial, as it is more rural, dwindling in numbers, and what?
(a) Is without adequate facilities for thousands of spectators.
(b) Is deep withing the southern fundamental Christian Bible Belt.
(c) Lacks prior tensions about evolution teaching issue.
(d) Has insufficient facilities for thousands of protestors.

12. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?
(a) Bible reading.
(b) Religious.
(c) Patriotic.
(d) Physical.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Darrow volunteer to defend Scopes beyond believing teachers should be able to instruct evolution?

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

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

4. Darwin's view of random variations and survival-of-the-fittest pose problems for many Christians holding what view of nature?

5. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?

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