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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. By 1925, the ACLU still seeks a court win, mainly as the first amendment's wording does not necessarily protect freedom of speech at what level?
(a) Federal.
(b) County.
(c) State.
(d) Municipal.

2. Who finds part of a parietal bone and skull pieces long before the trial that become known as the Piltdown skull?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Charles Dawson.
(c) Chevalier de Lamarck.
(d) Georges Cuvier.

3. 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) The judge terminates the questioning.
(c) Bryan refuses to leave the witness chair.
(d) Darrow objects and states that he is not finished.

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 political science.
(b) Texts include more revolutionary theory.
(c) Texts include evolutionary theory.
(d) Texts include more modern history.

5. After defeat of the first bill for a ban on teaching evolution, Bryan argues that who should decide what is taught?
(a) Taxpayers.
(b) School boards.
(c) Parents.
(d) Courts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of the shape and size of the Piltdown skull, scientists at that time believe it is a what?

2. After 1923, anti-evolutionists begin focusing on which state for legal action?

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

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

5. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

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