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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. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?
(a) Due to discoveries in experimetal palentology.
(b) Due to discoveries in experimental generics.
(c) Due to discoveries in experimental genetics.
(d) Due to discoveries in experimental genus.

2. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Charles Dawson.
(c) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(d) Charles Darwin.

3. Another ACLU worry, if both Darrow and Bryan work on the trial, is that it would become a clash between what?
(a) Fundamentalism, modernism.
(b) Science, religion.
(c) Religion, anti-religion.
(d) Liberals, conservatives.

4. Who asks some of Scopes' students to testify against him even though they are reluctant to?
(a) Darrow.
(b) Scopes.
(c) Rappleyea.
(d) Bryan.

5. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?
(a) Account of only lives on Noah's ark surviving a great flood is literal.
(b) Account of six days is literal rather than symbolic.
(c) Accounts of human life spans of hundreds of years are literal.
(d) Account of six days is symbolic rather than literal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Darrow's practice shifts slowly to criminal law where he often seeks to challenge traditional ideologies of what?

2. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?

3. Bryan involves himself in how many state anti-evolution proposals in 1923?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

3. In his introduction, how does the author describe the scene where Clarence Darrow questions William Jennings Bryan?

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

5. What does George W. Rappleyea see upon viewing the press release about the trial in Dayton?

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

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

8. What is the position that Bryan comes to aid in prosecuting?

9. Why is it that the ACLU is concerned about the academic freedom around which the Scopes trial centers?

10. In what fashion does defense attorney Darrow question Bryan?

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