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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. On Wednesday (15th), the judge recalls the jurors and instructs each side to do what?
(a) Examine, cross-examine the first witness.
(b) Give opening statements.
(c) Enter items into evidence.
(d) Call opening witnesses in turn.

2. The jury deliberates how long before returning with a guilty verdict?
(a) 90 minutes.
(b) 9 minutes.
(c) 1/2 day.
(d) 1 day.

3. Scopes leaves following the verdict to study where?
(a) University of Chicago.
(b) University of Iowa.
(c) University of Tennessee.
(d) Princeton University.

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

5. The nation's press quickly turns from the trial to what?
(a) Significance it has.
(b) Fundamentalist demonstrations.
(c) Scopes' appeals.
(d) Other topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Only Yesterday, Allen seeks to provide a lively account of the 1920s, and the trial figures in a middle chapter in what way?

2. Through what method does Bryan want to debunk evolution theories?

3. Bryan leaves legal issues to the other lawyers and assumes responsibility to do what?

4. Bryan immediately goes on the offense for his crusade, revising what would have been his closing argument into what?

5. The judge adjourns until Tuesday afternoon (14th), as a storm the night before affects what that prevents him from preparing a ruling?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did McCarthy-era attacks bring the Scopes trial to symbolize?

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

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

5. What early legal issues echo the argument that is before the court?

6. Why are court proceedings moved to the courthouse lawn?

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

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

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

10. What witnesses does the prosecution call?

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