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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 trial opens on Friday. What is the date?
(a) May 10, 1925.
(b) July 10, 1925.
(c) June 10, 1925.
(d) August 10, 1925.

2. The ACLU begins preparing for an appeal and tries to exclude Darrow from the proceedings. What does he do?
(a) Moves on to other cases.
(b) Concentrates on writing a book.
(c) Leaves the defense team.
(d) Remains on the defense team.

3. What is President Calvin Coolidge's position on the trial?
(a) It is a Tennessee matter.
(b) Modernist.
(c) Fundamentalist.
(d) Declines to comment.

4. Bryan concedes that he interprets the Bible and at times, he does not know the answers to what?
(a) Biological questions Darrow raises.
(b) Evolution questions Darrow raises.
(c) Biblical questions Darrow raises.
(d) Zoological questions Darrow raises.

5. Sunday afternoon (12th), Bryan gives a speech outside the court, but he cannot speak about what issue there?
(a) Freedom of speech.
(b) Freedom of education.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Freedom of religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under cross-examination, White admits that who officially adopts the text?

2. Because of the high publicity, how do the potential jurors feel?

3. How soon does Bryan die after the trial ends?

4. Both sides predict victory, yet the ACLU also makes plans for what?

5. Why is the same grand jury that convened several months prior now returning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Was there any middle ground between the modernists and fundamentalists?

2. Why is Monday, the second trial date, essential for the defense?

3. Why are court proceedings moved to the courthouse lawn?

4. What did McCarthy-era attacks bring the Scopes trial to symbolize?

5. What, essentially, do the prosecution and the defense offer when the judge instructs them to make their opening statements?

6. How does Davenport prepare for the trial?

7. What witnesses does the prosecution call?

8. Why is it in the final analysis that neither side is able to claim a decisive victory?

9. How does the questioning of the jury proceed?

10. How is Bryan at the center of the pretrial publicity?

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