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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which man, Darrow or Bryan, eventually backs down from the challenges the Scopes trial presents?
(a) Darrow.
(b) Both.
(c) Bryan.
(d) Neither.

3. Darrow is likely the most famous U.S. trial lawyer by the 1920s, defending many famous clients including what Socialist labor leader in the late 1890s?
(a) Simon Winn.
(b) Charles H. Corregan.
(c) Charles Matchett.
(d) Eugene V. Debs.

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

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

6. What is it that Larson shows that helps put the ACLU into a position to test the Tennessee law and defend Scopes?
(a) Its origins.
(b) Locating a willing teacher.
(c) That law holds a criminal penalty.
(d) Darrow agrees to defend.

7. Futile attempts of the ACLU in cases before Scopes' trial are likely because of what general attitude during and directly after World War I?
(a) Anticommunism, fundamentalism.
(b) Fundamentalism, patriotism.
(c) Antisocialism, capitalism.
(d) Anticommunism, patriotism.

8. Larson's introduction serves as a preview of the Scopes trial and issues it raises for whom?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Tennessee society.
(c) School administrators.
(d) American society.

9. 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) 1925.
(b) 1923.
(c) A1921.
(d) 1919.

10. After 1923, anti-evolutionists begin focusing on which state for legal action?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Georgia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Mississippi.

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

12. In addition to Florida, which state passes a minor resolution on the anti-evolution issue in 1923?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) Kentucky.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The text Scopes has been using while filling in for the regular biology teacher has what approval?

2. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?

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

4. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?

5. The National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?

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