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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. It seems an irregular case as the ACLU is paying litigation costs, and the prosecution is acting under whom?
(a) Southern Baptist minister.
(b) Fundamentalists.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) ACLU.

4. As it makes its way into the press, papers proclaim the Piltdown skull proves whose theory of evolution?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Charles Dawson.

5. In defending conscientious objectors and war protesters, National Civil Liberties Bureau activists see that what are not the same?
(a) Majority rule, freedom of spech.
(b) Majority rule, freedom of education.
(c) Majority rule, freedom of religion.
(d) Majority rule, liberty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. After defeat of the first bill for a ban on teaching evolution, Bryan argues that who should decide what is taught?
(a) Taxpayers.
(b) Courts.
(c) School boards.
(d) Parents.

13. Another ACLU worry, if both Darrow and Bryan work on the trial, is that it would become a clash between what?
(a) Science, religion.
(b) Liberals, conservatives.
(c) Religion, anti-religion.
(d) Fundamentalism, modernism.

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

15. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?
(a) Jesus' inner circle of disciples.
(b) Old Testament miracles.
(c) New Testament miracles.
(d) Book of Revelation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The initial bill, calling for a ban on teaching evolution in schools, results in defeat by how many votes in the state's House of Representatives?

2. When does John W. Butler propose it a misdemeanor to teach that man evolves, "from a lower order of animal" instead of the biblical account?

3. Darrow defends John Scopes for violating which laws, saying evolution cannot be taught in public schools?

4. Who is the presiding judge?

5. What is one ACLU concern with Darrow?

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