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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. Once proceedings are over, the jury returns to the room for instructions, having heard how much testimony and questioning?
(a) 4 hours testimony, minimal questioning.
(b) 2 hours testimony, no questioning.
(c) 4 hours testimony, no questioning.
(d) 2 hours testimony, minimal questioning.

2. 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.

3. Middle ground exists between the modernists and fundamentalists, and it garners what amount of attention?
(a) Virtually none.
(b) Significant.
(c) Moderate.
(d) Little.

4. Tennessee outlaws teaching that denies the biblical account of creation, so the defense wants to show what?
(a) Biblical interpretations are inaccurate.
(b) Evolution theory is proven, biblical interpretations differ.
(c) Biblical interpretations differ.
(d) Biblical interpretations, evolution theory are compatible.

5. Bryan leaves legal issues to the other lawyers and assumes responsibility to do what?
(a) Find theologians, clergy to testify.
(b) Find scholars, scientists to testify.
(c) Find scientists, attorneys to testify.
(d) Find scientists, theologians to testify.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the prosecution handle jury selection?

2. Jury selection begins when on Friday (10th)?

3. Debates show that many who doubt the evolution theory feel how as to its inclusion in school curricula?

4. Both sides use the media in attempts to throw off the other. How?

5. That weekend (11th-12th), most prosecutors go where?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What, essentially, do the prosecution and the defense offer when the judge instructs them to make their opening statements?

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

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

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

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

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