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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The trial opens on Friday. What is the date?
(a) June 10, 1925.
(b) August 10, 1925.
(c) July 10, 1925.
(d) May 10, 1925.

2. Only Yesterday is written by Harper's editor Frederick Lewis Allen and published in which year?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1951.

3. The prosecution argues that the law simply bars teaching evolution, regardless of what?
(a) Evolution is.
(b) Evolution is or is not.
(c) Evolution is not.
(d) Evolution is commonly thought to mean.

4. Most major newspapers take what position?
(a) Support prosecution.
(b) Equal attention to both sides; middle view.
(c) Equal attention; express no opinion.
(d) Support defense.

5. Jury selection begins when on Friday (10th)?
(a) After lunch.
(b) Mid-afternoon.
(c) Late afternoon.
(d) Late morning.

6. The anti-evolution crusade continues for a period after the trial, but fundamentalist political activity declines by when?
(a) World War II.
(b) Cold War.
(c) McCarthy era.
(d) Great Depression.

7. Internal conflict, confusion, and maneuvering characterize which side in the days before the state supreme court hears the case?
(a) Primarily the defense.
(b) Both the defense, prosecution.
(c) Neither the defense, prosecution.
(d) Primarily the prosecution.

8. How soon does Bryan die after the trial ends?
(a) Less than 2 weeks.
(b) Less than 2 months.
(c) Less than 1 months.
(d) Less than 1 week.

9. What is President Calvin Coolidge's position on the trial?
(a) Modernist.
(b) It is a Tennessee matter.
(c) Declines to comment.
(d) Fundamentalist.

10. Under cross-examination, White admits that who officially adopts the text?
(a) County textbook commission.
(b) School board textbook committee.
(c) State textbook commission.
(d) Municipal textbook commission.

11. The defense openly issues what daily notices?
(a) Which possible strategies they may follow.
(b) Which expert witnesses may testify.
(c) Which expert witnesses may testify, possible strategies.
(d) All witnesses who will testify, all possible strategies.

12. The defense challenges the anti-evolution statute's constitutionality on the second day using a motion to what?
(a) Quash, as the text has approval.
(b) Move the trial, given the publicity.
(c) Quash the indictment.
(d) Move the trial's given location.

13. Although the prosecution has seen the law upheld, what does the defense believe?
(a) The popular reaction was essentially split.
(b) They will eventually win popular support.
(c) They won the popular reaction to the trial.
(d) The popular view is moving to the middle.

14. The ACLU begins preparing for an appeal and tries to exclude Darrow from the proceedings. What does he do?
(a) Leaves the defense team.
(b) Moves on to other cases.
(c) Remains on the defense team.
(d) Concentrates on writing a book.

15. By ending the defense without a closing argument, Darrow averts what?
(a) Closing prosecution argument, maximum fine.
(b) Possible hung jury, prolonging defense appeal.
(c) Maximum fine imposition.
(d) Closing argument by Bryan, defense appeal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because the defense opens with a witness other than Scopes, what does this mean?

2. The defense opens with Maynard M. Metcalf, a witness whose expertise is in what field?

3. Superintendent White testifies that Scopes does what?

4. Jurors leave the courtroom again, and both sides argue admissibility of expert testimony on evolution for how long?

5. Bryan comes how many days before the trial, giving him control over the "stage" of Dayton until defense arrival?

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