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

2. Which two young attorneys agree to serve on the prosecution?
(a) Herbert E. Hicks, George W. Rappleyea.
(b) Ben G. McKenzie, John T. Raulston.
(c) Herbert E. Hicks, Sue K. Hicks.
(d) John T. Raulston, George W. Rappleyea.

3. What is it that Larson shows that helps put the ACLU into a position to test the Tennessee law and defend Scopes?
(a) That law holds a criminal penalty.
(b) Locating a willing teacher.
(c) Its origins.
(d) Darrow agrees to defend.

4. The anti-evolution movement develops during the 1920s as it does due to Bryan's leadership and what else?
(a) Modernists' strong support of conservative Christianity.
(b) Fundamentalists' opposition to modernism.
(c) Fundamentalists' support of modernism.
(d) Fundamentalists' opposition to conservative Christianity.

5. 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?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. Darrow's practice shifts slowly to criminal law where he often seeks to challenge traditional ideologies of what?

2. Bryan involves himself in how many state anti-evolution proposals in 1923?

3. What does Bryan do in view of a literal Biblical interpretation and scientific facts when Darrow questions him?

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

5. Another ACLU worry, if both Darrow and Bryan work on the trial, is that it would become a clash between what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What role does World War I play in the tensions between fundamentalists and modernists?

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

6. What is the position Darrow comes to help in defending?

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

8. William Jennings Bryan is one of the key players in this historical work. His role is what?

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

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

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