View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Other writers follow Allen's unintentional reconstructions and view the trial as the last stand of what?
(a) Teaching evolution in schools
(b) Darwin's theory of evolution.
(c) Darrow's defense of Scopes.
(d) Christian fundamentalism.

3. The defense challenges the anti-evolution statute's constitutionality on the second day using a motion to what?
(a) Quash, as the text has approval.
(b) Quash the indictment.
(c) Move the trial, given the publicity.
(d) Move the trial's given location.

4. About how many reporters cover the trial from Dayton?
(a) 300.
(b) 200.
(c) 400.
(d) 100.

5. Although the prosecution has seen the law upheld, what does the defense believe?
(a) They will eventually win popular support.
(b) They won the popular reaction to the trial.
(c) The popular view is moving to the middle.
(d) The popular reaction was essentially split.

Short Answer Questions

1. On Wednesday (15th), the judge recalls the jurors and instructs each side to do what?

2. By ending the defense without a closing argument, Darrow averts what?

3. In June 1925, Scopes meets with which three well-known scientists who help shape public response to his trial?

4. Who has already been debating with Bryan for years over the teaching of evolution?

5. Bryan begins to believe that the trial needs to exclude any discussion on what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Davenport prepare for the trial?

2. How is Dayton left following the trial?

3. What witnesses does the prosecution call?

4. What Scopes legend arose from 1931-1960?

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

6. Which side is seen as the true winner of the Scopes trial?

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

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

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

10. Henry Fairfield Osborn approaches the trial in what fashion?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 947 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample