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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Because the defense opens with a witness other than Scopes, what does this mean?
(a) He will not be cross-examined.
(b) He will initially be examined by the prosecution.
(c) He will not testify before the court.
(d) He will testify before the court last.

2. The state supreme court says the anti-evolution law only applies to employees in official roles and does not violate what?
(a) Freedom of education.
(b) Individual freedom.
(c) Freedom of speech.
(d) Freedom of religion.

3. Sunday afternoon (12th), Bryan gives a speech outside the court, but he cannot speak about what issue there?
(a) Freedom of speech.
(b) Freedom of religion.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Freedom of education.

4. Middle ground exists between the modernists and fundamentalists, and it garners what amount of attention?
(a) Significant.
(b) Virtually none.
(c) Little.
(d) Moderate.

5. Who, at the time, sees the trial as a clear-cut victory for the defense or the prosecution?
(a) No one.
(b) Scopes.
(c) Darrow.
(d) Rappleyea.

6. By the 1950s, the trial becomes popular among historians and is often shown whose victory?
(a) Conservatives.
(b) Fundamentalists.
(c) Liberals.
(d) Moderates.

7. Why is the same grand jury that convened several months prior now returning?
(a) For a new indictment.
(b) As potential prosecution witnesses.
(c) Questioning as jurors for the case.
(d) To hear motion to quash indictment.

8. On what grounds does Darrow argue that the statute is illegal, given that it imposes a specific religious stance?
(a) Multiple interpretations exist.
(b) Evolutionary theory is proven.
(c) Violates freedom of education.
(d) Violates freedom of speech.

9. How does the prosecution handle jury selection?
(a) Readily accepts almost everyone.
(b) Rejects any accepting evolution theory.
(c) Accepts after rigorous questioning.
(d) Accepts only those professing Christianity.

10. Why is Darrow's rebuttal critical when the prosecution argues that the majority should be able to decide what is taught?
(a) Plans to show both biblical accounts and evolution must be taught..
(b) Plans to forego closing argument, cutting out prosecution's plans.
(c) Plans to show that the text Scopes uses teaching evolution has official approval.
(d) Plans to show different interpretations of biblical passages.

11. Tennessee outlaws teaching that denies the biblical account of creation, so the defense wants to show what?
(a) Biblical interpretations, evolution theory are compatible.
(b) Evolution theory is proven, biblical interpretations differ.
(c) Biblical interpretations differ.
(d) Biblical interpretations are inaccurate.

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

13. Bryan immediately goes on the offense for his crusade, revising what would have been his closing argument into what?
(a) An argument to counter an appeal.
(b) A fiery speech.
(c) A legal request for anti-evolution laws in other states.
(d) A debate platform.

14. Scopes leaves following the verdict to study where?
(a) University of Iowa.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) University of Tennessee.
(d) Princeton University.

15. Both sides predict victory, yet the ACLU also makes plans for what?
(a) Trials in federal court.
(b) Massive demonstrations in Nashville, Tennessee.
(c) Further appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court.
(d) Multiple trials in other states.

Short Answer Questions

1. Darrow is what for contempt due to comments he makes the previous Friday; charges the judge dismisses when he apologizes?

2. The jury lets the judge impose the minimum fine of how much?

3. Only Yesterday is written by Harper's editor Frederick Lewis Allen and published in which year?

4. In Only Yesterday, Allen seeks to provide a lively account of the 1920s, and the trial figures in a middle chapter in what way?

5. A 1935 attempt to repeal the anti-evolution law receives what level of conservative attention?

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