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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. In 1925, Dayton Tennessee is what type of town?
(a) Relatively new.
(b) Very old.
(c) Relatively old.
(d) Very new.

2. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?
(a) Some scriptural passages need interpretation.
(b) No scriptural passages need interpretation.
(c) All scriptural passages need interpretation.
(d) Most scriptural passages need interpretation.

3. Which New Yorker, originally with a chemical engineering doctorate, sees a way to challenge the anti-evolution law?
(a) John T. Raulston.
(b) Ben G. McKenzie.
(c) George W. Rappleyea.
(d) Tom Stewart.

4. After the war, the National Civil Liberties Bureau changes its name to what to reflect its new focus defending labor union activists?
(a) American Civilian Liberties Unity (ACLU).
(b) American Civilian Legal Union (ACLU).
(c) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
(d) American Civil Liberty Unit (ACLU).

5. Darrow is likely the most famous U.S. trial lawyer by the 1920s, defending many famous clients including what Socialist labor leader in the late 1890s?
(a) Simon Winn.
(b) Charles H. Corregan.
(c) Eugene V. Debs.
(d) Charles Matchett.

Short Answer Questions

1. Futile attempts of the ACLU in cases before Scopes' trial are likely because of what general attitude during and directly after World War I?

2. Bryan offers his services to the prosecution in mid-May despite not having been practicing law for how long?

3. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?

4. As desire for academic freedom spreads to high schools, the ACLU defends teachers and what else?

5. Dayton, between Knoxville and Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley, is in what part of Tennessee?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does federalism grow out of?

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

3. How is it that, by the turn of the 20th century, writers and historians are keeping alive the idea of disagreement between religion and science?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Although Darrow never specifically asked about evolution, he did lead Bryan through a series of questions intended to show what?

10. What takes place as word of the Piltdown skull leaks into popular society?

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