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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. Who is the presiding judge?
(a) Ben G. McKenzie.
(b) George W. Rappleyea.
(c) Tom Stewart.
(d) John T. Raulston.

2. The scene that the author refers to in his Introduction is said to be reminiscent of what dramatic scenes?
(a) Stage, TV.
(b) Stage, movie.
(c) Movie, TV.
(d) Radio, TV.

3. Talk of evolution and new fossil finds have anti-evolutionists responding how beyond calling for teaching limits?
(a) Most strive for equal time instructing evolution, the Bible.
(b) Some decry the fossils as frauds, challenge their antiquity.
(c) Many note the teaching compatability of science, Christianity.
(d) Numerous seek requisite Bible teaching in public schools.

4. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?
(a) Texts include more modern history.
(b) Texts include evolutionary theory.
(c) Texts include more revolutionary theory.
(d) Texts include more political science.

5. After the war, the cultural crisis grows worse for fundamentalists and they begin to take what action?
(a) Revolutionary.
(b) Terrorist.
(c) Social.
(d) Religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Christian scientists less able to enter the fray and offer theories allowing both the Bible and science?

2. Scopes is the ideal defendant in many ways being young, single, shy, well-liked, and what else?

3. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?

4. Despite its rise, the anti-evolution movement lacks a clear, specific legal or political issue until when?

5. What is one ACLU concern with Darrow?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

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

8. What initial legislative reform does Bryan seek prior to Tennessee?

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

10. What are essential things that took place during the preliminary hearing on May 9, 1925?

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