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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Fundamentalists' support of modernism.
(d) Modernists' strong support of conservative Christianity.

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

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

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

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

6. The combination of what laws result in more students remaining in school beyond the elementary level?
(a) Child labor, labor union.
(b) Labor union, compulsory education.
(c) Child labor, compulsory education.
(d) Compulsory education, apprentice.

7. 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.

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

10. When Tennessee's bill passes, the ACLU runs a notice where, seeking a teacher willing to challenge the law?
(a) Memphis Flyer.
(b) Nashville Tribune.
(c) Chattanooga Times.
(d) Knoxville Journal.

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

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

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

14. 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 revolutionary theory.
(b) Texts include more political science.
(c) Texts include more modern history.
(d) Texts include evolutionary theory.

15. 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?
(a) 1923.
(b) A1921.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. After defeat of the first bill for a ban on teaching evolution, Bryan argues that who should decide what is taught?

2. What is it that Larson shows that helps put the ACLU into a position to test the Tennessee law and defend Scopes?

3. In defending conscientious objectors and war protesters, National Civil Liberties Bureau activists see that what are not the same?

4. Larson's introduction serves as a preview of the Scopes trial and issues it raises for whom?

5. What does Bryan do in view of a literal Biblical interpretation and scientific facts when Darrow questions him?

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