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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. The presiding judge wants an indictment as a conservative Christian, feeling a calling from God to officiate, and seeking what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Innocent ruling.
(c) Guilty ruling.
(d) Publicity.

2. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?
(a) New Testament miracles.
(b) Jesus' inner circle of disciples.
(c) Book of Revelation.
(d) Old Testament miracles.

3. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?
(a) Affords background of Darrow, Bryan.
(b) Draws readers in, frames the rest of his work.
(c) Outlines subsequent chapters.
(d) Provides an overview of evolutionary theory.

4. Darrow grows to see evolutionary theory as a way of doing what?
(a) Achieving Scopes' clearance of the criminal charges.
(b) Guaranteeing American civil liberty of freedom of speech.
(c) Debunking biblical accounts of divine creation, design.
(d) Supporting the ACLU leaders in garnering their initial victory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John Randolph Neal do while serving as the primary defense at a preliminary hearing on May 9?

2. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?

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

4. In addition to Florida, which state passes a minor resolution on the anti-evolution issue in 1923?

5. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does federalism grow out of?

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. When the Tennessee law against teaching evolution is enacted, what does the ACLU do?

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

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

10. Why is it that the anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s?

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