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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The modern Scopes legend arises in part by the release of Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s and what other film?
(a) Wind over Water.
(b) The Wind.
(c) Gone With the Wind.
(d) Inherit the Wind.

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

5. Who has already been debating with Bryan for years over the teaching of evolution?
(a) Charles B. Davenport.
(b) Henry Fairfield Osborn.
(c) J. McKeen Cattell.
(d) Ben G. McKenzie.

6. The nation's press quickly turns from the trial to what?
(a) Scopes' appeals.
(b) Other topics.
(c) Significance it has.
(d) Fundamentalist demonstrations.

7. A 1935 attempt to repeal the anti-evolution law receives what level of conservative attention?
(a) Only minimally arouses.
(b) Does wholly arouse.
(c) Virtually no attention arousal.
(d) Does not wholly arouse.

8. Defense counters that the prosecution's opening is all a matter of interpretation and what?
(a) It is predominantly accepted that the Bible and evolution theory are compatible.
(b) Many believe in both the Bible, evolution.
(c) The textbook Scopes uses has official aproval.
(d) Biblical account has not been proven.

9. Prosecutors privately boast that they will ambush the defense, who will expect them to restrict the case to what?
(a) Incompatibility of Christianity, evolution.
(b) Human evolution is not proven.
(c) People's right to control school curricula.
(d) Human evolution, Christianity are incompatible.

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

11. In Only Yesterday, Allen seeks to provide a lively account of the 1920s, and the trial figures in a middle chapter in what way?
(a) .Predominant feature, given an overly simplistic analysis.
(b) Predominant feature, given a precise analysis.
(c) Predominant feature, lacking any analysis.
(d) Minor feature, given an overly simplistic analysis.

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

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

14. About how many reporters cover the trial from Dayton?
(a) 100.
(b) 300.
(c) 200.
(d) 400.

15. Superintendent White testifies that Scopes does what?
(a) Denies he taught evolution from the text.
(b) Admits he taught evolution from the text.
(c) Admits he spoke about evolution with a handful of students.
(d) Admits he spoke of evolution using the text after school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most major newspapers take what position?

2. Prosecutors open by briefly arguing that Scopes violates the law by teaching that humans evolve from other life forms and what?

3. How soon does Bryan die after the trial ends?

4. Most national politicians publicly choose what position on the trial?

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

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