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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 modern Scopes legend arises in part by the release of Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s and what other film?
(a) Wind over Water.
(b) Gone With the Wind.
(c) Inherit the Wind.
(d) The Wind.

2. Because of the high publicity, how do the potential jurors feel?
(a) Roughly half want to be on jury.
(b) Virtually all want to be on jury.
(c) Virtually none want to be on jury.
(d) Most unsure if they want to be on jury.

3. Both sides use the media in attempts to throw off the other. How?
(a) Both sides broadcasting much falsely to confuse.
(b) Both sides broadcasting as much as possible to confuse.
(c) Keeping quiet or broadcasting everything possible.
(d) Keeping quiet or broadcasting virtually all falsely.

4. Debates show that many who doubt the evolution theory feel how as to its inclusion in school curricula?
(a) Have little or no concern.
(b) Wholly in opposition.
(c) Have little or no opinion.
(d) Not wholly in opposition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, at the time, sees the trial as a clear-cut victory for the defense or the prosecution?

2. Who is the last witness for the prosecution who states that Scopes knew he was violating the law?

3. The jury deliberates how long before returning with a guilty verdict?

4. Scopes leaves following the verdict to study where?

5. The person who has been debating Bryan over the years increases his efforts to show what as the trial nears?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Bryan do upon conclusion of the Scopes trial?

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

4. Who does Scopes confer with in New York the month before the trial?

5. What witnesses does the prosecution call?

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

7. How does the questioning of the jury proceed?

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

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

10. What transpires within the anti-evolution crusade following the Scopes trial?

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