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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. The National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1916.

2. Dayton is an unlikely choice for the trial, as it is more rural, dwindling in numbers, and what?
(a) Is deep withing the southern fundamental Christian Bible Belt.
(b) Has insufficient facilities for thousands of protestors.
(c) Is without adequate facilities for thousands of spectators.
(d) Lacks prior tensions about evolution teaching issue.

3. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Florida.
(d) Oklahoma.

4. The anti-evolution movement develops during the 1920s as it does due to Bryan's leadership and what else?
(a) Fundamentalists' opposition to conservative Christianity.
(b) Modernists' strong support of conservative Christianity.
(c) Fundamentalists' opposition to modernism.
(d) Fundamentalists' support of modernism.

5. When Tennessee's bill passes, the ACLU runs a notice where, seeking a teacher willing to challenge the law?
(a) Memphis Flyer.
(b) Chattanooga Times.
(c) Knoxville Journal.
(d) Nashville Tribune.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?

2. Darrow grows to see evolutionary theory as a way of doing what?

3. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?

4. Which two young attorneys agree to serve on the prosecution?

5. It seems an irregular case as the ACLU is paying litigation costs, and the prosecution is acting under whom?

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 position Darrow comes to help in defending?

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

4. What role does William Jennings Bryan play in the rise of the anti-evolutionary movement and events leading to the Scopes trial?

5. What is the evolutionary theory that French naturalist Chevalier de Lamarck suggests more than a century prior to Darwin's?

6. What key individuals come aboard the day after George W. Rappleyea?

7. What are some of the similarities Darrow will present in comparison to Bryan?

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

9. How does Darrow become involved in the Scopes trial on the defense side?

10. What is Georges Cuvier's theory that is more widely accepted than Chevalier de Lamarck's?

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