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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Greater student numbers plus the growing fundamentalist movement means conservative Christian parents find what is coming into conflict?
(a) Children's faith, education.
(b) Parents' faith, children's beliefs.
(c) Parents' faith, children's education.
(d) Parents' education, faith.

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

3. What position does Bryan previously serve in, but later resign from?
(a) Secretary of Education.
(b) Secretary of Treasury.
(c) Secretary of the Army.
(d) Secretary of State.

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

5. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?
(a) Affords background of Darrow, Bryan.
(b) Draws readers in, frames the rest of his work.
(c) Provides an overview of evolutionary theory.
(d) Outlines subsequent chapters.

6. 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, private schools.
(c) Growth of public schools.
(d) College growth.

7. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?
(a) Geology, the solar system.
(b) Geology, biology.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Biology, the solar system.

8. Dayton, between Knoxville and Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley, is in what part of Tennessee?
(a) East.
(b) West.
(c) North.
(d) South.

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

10. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?
(a) Due to discoveries in experimental genus.
(b) Due to discoveries in experimetal palentology.
(c) Due to discoveries in experimental generics.
(d) Due to discoveries in experimental genetics.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?

2. Which man, Darrow or Bryan, eventually backs down from the challenges the Scopes trial presents?

3. Who is the presiding judge?

4. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?

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

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