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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. What summer does the title of Edward J. Larson's work refer to?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1922.

2. What do modernists argue matters regarding the accounts within biblical scriptures?
(a) Understanding; application to people's needs.
(b) Precision; unerring scientific accuracy.
(c) Precision; unerring historical accuracy.
(d) Interpretation; application to children's education.

3. Larson says the defense strategy of calling a prosecutor to the stand to testify as a hostile witness is what?
(a) Twisted.
(b) Smart.
(c) Inevitable.
(d) Clever.

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

5. What does Larson say transpires when the chief prosecutor calls for the end of the questioning?
(a) The judge terminates the questioning.
(b) Bryan refuses to leave the witness chair.
(c) Bryan acquiesces to the chief prosecutor's call.
(d) Darrow objects and states that he is not finished.

Short Answer Questions

1. Darrow defends John Scopes for violating which laws, saying evolution cannot be taught in public schools?

2. Bryan hears of the proposal to ban teaching evolution, and as he supports the idea in talks and writing, he does what else?

3. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?

4. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?

5. Who argues that the earth has a very long geologic history and that some biological species are extinct?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were concerns the ACLU had about Darrow?

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

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

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

6. Why does the National Civil Liberties Bureau change its name to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?

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

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

9. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

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

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