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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?
(a) Bryan refuses to leave the witness chair.
(b) Darrow objects and states that he is not finished.
(c) Bryan acquiesces to the chief prosecutor's call.
(d) The judge terminates the questioning.

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

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

4. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?
(a) Account of only lives on Noah's ark surviving a great flood is literal.
(b) Account of six days is literal rather than symbolic.
(c) Account of six days is symbolic rather than literal.
(d) Accounts of human life spans of hundreds of years are literal.

5. Who is the presiding judge?
(a) John T. Raulston.
(b) Tom Stewart.
(c) Ben G. McKenzie.
(d) George W. Rappleyea.

6. What does the jaw for the Piltdown skull appear to be of?
(a) An unknown feline.
(b) An unknown canine.
(c) An underdeveloped bear.
(d) An unknown ape.

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

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

9. Paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels the Piltdown skull from a new species from what extinct primate?
(a) Eosinophil.
(b) Eoanthropus dasoni.
(c) Eohippus.
(d) Eolith.

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 experimetal palentology.
(b) Due to discoveries in experimental genetics.
(c) Due to discoveries in experimental generics.
(d) Due to discoveries in experimental genus.

11. By 1925, the ACLU still seeks a court win, mainly as the first amendment's wording does not necessarily protect freedom of speech at what level?
(a) County.
(b) Municipal.
(c) State.
(d) Federal.

12. What question does the Scopes trial rest on?
(a) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach nature, science.
(b) The Bible is not factual..
(c) The Bible is a faulty source to educationally teach history.
(d) The Bible has no place in the public schools.

13. Offering to move the trial up, the presiding judge seeks to do what?
(a) Avoiding publicity, unfair trial atmosphere.
(b) Ensuring fair trial proceedings, justice.
(c) Avoid conflicting with the school session.
(d) Limiting time for defense preparation.

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

15. The National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1917.

Short Answer Questions

1. Journalists covering the case note that what is lacking between the prosecution and defense?

2. What else pushes evolution to the forefront of public debate in the early 1920s?

3. Despite its rise, the anti-evolution movement lacks a clear, specific legal or political issue until when?

4. How many conservatives gather at the first World's Christian Fundamentals Association conference in 1919?

5. 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?

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