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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Academic freedom has always been a concern for the ACLU, as it relates to what?
(a) Freedom of research.
(b) Freedom of religion.
(c) Freedom of speech.
(d) Freedom of education.

3. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Florida.
(d) Tennessee.

4. Darrow defends John Scopes for violating which laws, saying evolution cannot be taught in public schools?
(a) Municipal.
(b) Federal.
(c) State.
(d) County.

5. What do modernists argue matters regarding the accounts within biblical scriptures?
(a) Understanding; application to people's needs.
(b) Precision; unerring historical accuracy.
(c) Precision; unerring scientific accuracy.
(d) Interpretation; application to children's education.

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

7. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?
(a) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(b) Charles Dawson.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Georges Cuvier.

8. In the 1920s, which denominational leaders stress the divine inspiration of the Bible and its literal interpretation?
(a) Presbyterian, Methodist.
(b) Baptist, Lutheran.
(c) Christian Science, Roman Catholic.
(d) Baptist, Presbyterian.

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

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

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

12. Talk of evolution and new fossil finds have anti-evolutionists responding how beyond calling for teaching limits?
(a) Many note the teaching compatability of science, Christianity.
(b) Numerous seek requisite Bible teaching in public schools.
(c) Some decry the fossils as frauds, challenge their antiquity.
(d) Most strive for equal time instructing evolution, the Bible.

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

14. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?
(a) Sporadic.
(b) Minor.
(c) Major.
(d) Local.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?

2. Which two young attorneys agree to serve on the prosecution?

3. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?

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

5. What is Bryan's view regarding World War I?

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