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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. The defense openly issues what daily notices?
(a) All witnesses who will testify, all possible strategies.
(b) Which expert witnesses may testify.
(c) Which possible strategies they may follow.
(d) Which expert witnesses may testify, possible strategies.

2. Through what method does Bryan want to debunk evolution theories?
(a) University professors.
(b) Clergy members.
(c) Expert testimony.
(d) Theologians.

3. The defense opens with Maynard M. Metcalf, a witness whose expertise is in what field?
(a) Zoology.
(b) Physiology.
(c) Geology.
(d) Biology.

4. What is President Calvin Coolidge's position on the trial?
(a) Fundamentalist.
(b) Declines to comment.
(c) Modernist.
(d) It is a Tennessee matter.

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

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

3. What does the defense stress?

4. Most major newspapers take what position?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the questioning of the jury proceed?

6. What witnesses does the prosecution call?

7. How does Davenport prepare for the trial?

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

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

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

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