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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. Most major newspapers take what position?
(a) Equal attention to both sides; middle view.
(b) Support prosecution.
(c) Support defense.
(d) Equal attention; express no opinion.

2. Who attends a sermon Bryan gives in Dayton on Sunday (12th) immediately after the first trial date?
(a) Most of the jury.
(b) Scopes.
(c) Darrow.
(d) Presiding judge.

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

4. Tennessee newspapers see the trial as what?
(a) Neither as a loss or a victory for either side.
(b) Both as a loss and a victory for each side.
(c) Both as a loss and a draw for each side.
(d) Both as a draw and a victory for each side.

5. Only Yesterday is written by Harper's editor Frederick Lewis Allen and published in which year?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bryan comes how many days before the trial, giving him control over the "stage" of Dayton until defense arrival?

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

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

4. The jury lets the judge impose the minimum fine of how much?

5. Bryan concedes that he interprets the Bible and at times, he does not know the answers to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Davenport prepare for the trial?

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

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

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

5. How is Dayton left following the trial?

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

7. How does the questioning of the jury proceed?

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

9. What transpires in the 1950s?

10. What is the issue over the morning prayer at the trial?

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