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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. Despite its rise, the anti-evolution movement lacks a clear, specific legal or political issue until when?
(a) Late 1923.
(b) Late 1921.
(c) Early 1925.
(d) Early 1924.

2. 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 Civil Liberty Unit (ACLU).
(c) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
(d) American Civilian Legal Union (ACLU).

3. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?
(a) Physical.
(b) Patriotic.
(c) Bible reading.
(d) Religious.

4. In defending conscientious objectors and war protesters, National Civil Liberties Bureau activists see that what are not the same?
(a) Majority rule, freedom of religion.
(b) Majority rule, liberty.
(c) Majority rule, freedom of education.
(d) Majority rule, freedom of spech.

5. Bryan involves himself in how many state anti-evolution proposals in 1923?
(a) 4.
(b) 2,
(c) 1.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The initial bill, calling for a ban on teaching evolution in schools, results in defeat by how many votes in the state's House of Representatives?

3. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?

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

5. Larson presents the leading players, Darrow and Bryan, and provides a sense of what between them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

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