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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. Darrow seeks an early ruling on whether scientific experts may testify, and the judge says he will hear the issue when?
(a) Following Tuesday (14th).
(b) Sometime next week.
(c) Following Wednesday (15th).
(d) Following Monday (13th).

2. Darrow tries to find jurors who profess what?
(a) An open mind.
(b) Not bound to fundamentalism.
(c) Whether or not a conservative Christian.
(d) Accept evolution.

3. Jurors leave the courtroom again, and both sides argue admissibility of expert testimony on evolution for how long?
(a) Several hours.
(b) Several days.
(c) 1 day.
(d) 1/2 day.

4. Larson says that Darrow asks potential jurors if they know anything about evolution, think the Bible opposes it, and what third issue?
(a) Believe Scopes is guilty of a crime.
(b) Are bound by fundamentalism.
(c) See middle ground between Christianity, evolution.
(d) Can decide given case presented.

5. Bryan leaves legal issues to the other lawyers and assumes responsibility to do what?
(a) Find scientists, attorneys to testify.
(b) Find scholars, scientists to testify.
(c) Find scientists, theologians to testify.
(d) Find theologians, clergy to testify.

Short Answer Questions

1. The trial opens on Friday. What is the date?

2. Prosecutors open by briefly arguing that Scopes violates the law by teaching that humans evolve from other life forms and what?

3. How does the prosecution handle jury selection?

4. Tennessee outlaws teaching that denies the biblical account of creation, so the defense wants to show what?

5. Under defense questioning, the students state that they were both still attending what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the prosecution object to Darrow questioning Metcalf?

2. What witnesses does the prosecution call?

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

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

5. What transpires in the 1950s?

6. What does Bryan do the first weekend after jury selection?

7. How do fundamentalists approach modernists and evolutionists to debate?

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

9. What are the primary positions of the defense and the prosecution?

10. What Scopes legend arose from 1931-1960?

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