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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. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?
(a) Many fundamentalists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(b) Nearly all modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(c) Many modernists support the war, and global affairs intervention.
(d) Many modernists oppose the war, and global affairs intervention.

2. As desire for academic freedom spreads to high schools, the ACLU defends teachers and what else?
(a) Makes appeals to state supreme courts.
(b) Publishes statements on the issue.
(c) Makes appeals to school boards.
(d) Organizes local civil protests.

3. Over a century before the Piltdown skull find, who argues that environmental changes may affect biological makeup, and changes pass down to offspring?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Charles Dawson.
(d) Chevalier de Lamarck.

4. Universities begin incorporating tenure and academic freedom to protect the freedom of what?
(a) Religion, speech.
(b) Speech, research.
(c) Speech, education.
(d) Education, research.

5. Darrow never specifically asks about what?
(a) Bible.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Solar system.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dayton, between Knoxville and Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley, is in what part of Tennessee?

2. Academic freedom has always been a concern for the ACLU, as it relates to what?

3. Greater student numbers plus the growing fundamentalist movement means conservative Christian parents find what is coming into conflict?

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

5. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What were concerns the ACLU had about Darrow?

8. 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?

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

10. What does federalism grow out of?

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