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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Other writers follow Allen's unintentional reconstructions and view the trial as the last stand of what?
(a) Darrow's defense of Scopes.
(b) Darwin's theory of evolution.
(c) Teaching evolution in schools
(d) Christian fundamentalism.

3. How many high school students testify that Scopes once discussed human evolution with them?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

4. High school texts are rewritten in the wake of the trial, with many doing what?
(a) Taking out or severely limiting discussion of human evolution.
(b) Affording greater detail to human evolution.
(c) Offering compatibility between evolution, Christian creation.
(d) Giving equal space to evolution, anti-evolution.

5. Bryan leaves legal issues to the other lawyers and assumes responsibility to do what?
(a) Find scientists, attorneys to testify.
(b) Find theologians, clergy to testify.
(c) Find scholars, scientists to testify.
(d) Find scientists, theologians to testify.

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

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

8. The jury deliberates how long before returning with a guilty verdict?
(a) 90 minutes.
(b) 1 day.
(c) 9 minutes.
(d) 1/2 day.

9. Because of the high publicity, how do the potential jurors feel?
(a) Most unsure if they want to be on jury.
(b) Virtually all want to be on jury.
(c) Roughly half want to be on jury.
(d) Virtually none want to be on jury.

10. Darrow tries to find jurors who profess what?
(a) Not bound to fundamentalism.
(b) Whether or not a conservative Christian.
(c) Accept evolution.
(d) An open mind.

11. Bryan begins to believe that the trial needs to exclude any discussion on what?
(a) Christianity itself.
(b) Bible itself.
(c) Biology itself.
(d) Evolution itself.

12. Who is the last witness for the prosecution who states that Scopes knew he was violating the law?
(a) Fred Robins.
(b) Fred Robertson.
(c) Fred Roberts.
(d) Fred Robinson.

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

14. Under defense questioning, the students state that they were both still attending what?
(a) Church.
(b) Boy Scouts.
(c) High school.
(d) Sunday school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the same grand jury that convened several months prior now returning?

2. About how many reporters cover the trial from Dayton?

3. Larson says that Darrow asks potential jurors if they know anything about evolution, think the Bible opposes it, and what third issue?

4. Who, at the time, sees the trial as a clear-cut victory for the defense or the prosecution?

5. Both sides use the media in attempts to throw off the other. How?

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