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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. After 1923, anti-evolutionists begin focusing on which state for legal action?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Georgia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Mississippi.

2. When Tennessee's bill passes, the ACLU runs a notice where, seeking a teacher willing to challenge the law?
(a) Knoxville Journal.
(b) Chattanooga Times.
(c) Nashville Tribune.
(d) Memphis Flyer.

3. When does John W. Butler propose it a misdemeanor to teach that man evolves, "from a lower order of animal" instead of the biblical account?
(a) 1919.
(b) A1921.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1923.

4. The National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1918.

5. Dayton, between Knoxville and Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley, is in what part of Tennessee?
(a) West.
(b) South.
(c) North.
(d) East.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?

2. As it makes its way into the press, papers proclaim the Piltdown skull proves whose theory of evolution?

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

4. In 1925, Dayton Tennessee is what type of town?

5. Journalists covering the case note that what is lacking between the prosecution and defense?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were concerns the ACLU had about Darrow?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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