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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. What does the defense stress?
(a) Freedom of education, speech, religion.
(b) Freedom of speech, separation of church and state.
(c) Freedom of speech, religion.
(d) Freedom of religion, separation of church and state.

7. On Wednesday (15th), the judge recalls the jurors and instructs each side to do what?
(a) Give opening statements.
(b) Examine, cross-examine the first witness.
(c) Enter items into evidence.
(d) Call opening witnesses in turn.

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

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

10. Debates show that many who doubt the evolution theory feel how as to its inclusion in school curricula?
(a) Have little or no opinion.
(b) Wholly in opposition.
(c) Not wholly in opposition.
(d) Have little or no concern.

11. Darrow seeks an early ruling on whether scientific experts may testify, and the judge says he will hear the issue when?
(a) Following Wednesday (15th).
(b) Following Tuesday (14th).
(c) Following Monday (13th).
(d) Sometime next week.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Middle ground exists between the modernists and fundamentalists, and it garners what amount of attention?

3. Bryan begins to believe that the trial needs to exclude any discussion on what?

4. In June 1925, Scopes meets with which three well-known scientists who help shape public response to his trial?

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

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