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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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) Offering compatibility between evolution, Christian creation.
(c) Giving equal space to evolution, anti-evolution.
(d) Affording greater detail to human evolution.

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

9. Once proceedings are over, the jury returns to the room for instructions, having heard how much testimony and questioning?
(a) 2 hours testimony, no questioning.
(b) 4 hours testimony, minimal questioning.
(c) 2 hours testimony, minimal questioning.
(d) 4 hours testimony, no questioning.

10. 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) Gone With the Wind.
(c) Inherit the Wind.
(d) The Wind.

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

12. Larson illustrates how collective memories of events do what?
(a) Become essentially forgotten.
(b) Change over time.
(c) Change limitedly in socio-political context over time.
(d) Do not change much over time.

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

14. Larson says that Darrow asks potential jurors if they know anything about evolution, think the Bible opposes it, and what third issue?
(a) See middle ground between Christianity, evolution.
(b) Are bound by fundamentalism.
(c) Can decide given case presented.
(d) Believe Scopes is guilty of a crime.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bryan immediately goes on the offense for his crusade, revising what would have been his closing argument into what?

2. The jury deliberates how long before returning with a guilty verdict?

3. The nation's press quickly turns from the trial to what?

4. By ending the defense without a closing argument, Darrow averts what?

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

(see the answer keys)

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