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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. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?
(a) Bryan acquiesces to the chief prosecutor's call.
(b) Bryan refuses to leave the witness chair.
(c) The judge terminates the questioning.
(d) Darrow objects and states that he is not finished.

2. The text Scopes has been using while filling in for the regular biology teacher has what approval?
(a) County.
(b) State.
(c) Municipal.
(d) School board.

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

4. As desire for academic freedom spreads to high schools, the ACLU defends teachers and what else?
(a) Publishes statements on the issue.
(b) Organizes local civil protests.
(c) Makes appeals to state supreme courts.
(d) Makes appeals to school boards.

5. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Biology, the solar system.
(c) Geology, biology.
(d) Geology, the solar system.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Larson's introduction serves as a preview of the Scopes trial and issues it raises for whom?

4. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?

5. Bryan hears of the proposal to ban teaching evolution, and as he supports the idea in talks and writing, he does what else?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What were concerns the ACLU had about Darrow?

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

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

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

9. How do anti-evolutionists respond to new fossil discoveries and discussion of evolution?

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

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