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

2. Internal conflict, confusion, and maneuvering characterize which side in the days before the state supreme court hears the case?
(a) Neither the defense, prosecution.
(b) Primarily the defense.
(c) Primarily the prosecution.
(d) Both the defense, prosecution.

3. Why is it Larson argues that by the 1930s, fundamentalists have less to worry about?
(a) Fundamentalism is on the decline.
(b) Fundamentalism is on the rise during the Depression.
(c) Tennessee Supreme Court upholds anti-evolution law.
(d) Many states, districts limit teaching of evolution.

4. Larson illustrates how collective memories of events do what?
(a) Change over time.
(b) Do not change much over time.
(c) Change limitedly in socio-political context over time.
(d) Become essentially forgotten.

5. 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) Following Monday (13th).
(c) Sometime next week.
(d) Following Wednesday (15th).

Short Answer Questions

1. Most national politicians publicly choose what position on the trial?

2. A 1935 attempt to repeal the anti-evolution law receives what level of conservative attention?

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

4. By the 1950s, the trial becomes popular among historians and is often shown whose victory?

5. Who attends a sermon Bryan gives in Dayton on Sunday (12th) immediately after the first trial date?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Davenport prepare for the trial?

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

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

5. How does the questioning of the jury proceed?

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

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

8. Why is it important which witness the defense opens with?

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

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

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