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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?
(a) Many modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(b) Nearly all modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(c) Many fundamentalists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(d) Many modernists oppose the war, and global affairs intervention.

2. What does Bryan do in view of a literal Biblical interpretation and scientific facts when Darrow questions him?
(a) Concedes this critical point.
(b) Maintains his literal Biblical view.
(c) States that scientific assumptions are often disproved.
(d) Refuses to answer some questions.

3. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?
(a) Atheistic.
(b) Foreign.
(c) Marxist.
(d) Darwinian.

4. Which two young attorneys agree to serve on the prosecution?
(a) Herbert E. Hicks, George W. Rappleyea.
(b) Ben G. McKenzie, John T. Raulston.
(c) John T. Raulston, George W. Rappleyea.
(d) Herbert E. Hicks, Sue K. Hicks.

5. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?
(a) New Testament miracles.
(b) Old Testament miracles.
(c) Book of Revelation.
(d) Jesus' inner circle of disciples.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?

2. Universities begin incorporating tenure and academic freedom to protect the freedom of what?

3. The text Scopes has been using while filling in for the regular biology teacher has what approval?

4. Talk of evolution and new fossil finds have anti-evolutionists responding how beyond calling for teaching limits?

5. How many conservatives gather at the first World's Christian Fundamentals Association conference in 1919?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it that the anti-evolution movement's lack of a clear, specific legal or political issue changes by late 1921?

2. What is the find that paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels Eoanthropus dasoni?

3. What does federalism grow out of?

4. Why does the National Civil Liberties Bureau change its name to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?

5. When the Tennessee law against teaching evolution is enacted, what does the ACLU do?

6. How is it that this case does not seem normal from the start?

7. What are two legal battles that helped make Darrow prominent?

8. What is the position Darrow comes to help in defending?

9. William Jennings Bryan is one of the key players in this historical work. His role is what?

10. What role does World War I play in the tensions between fundamentalists and modernists?

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