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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. Bryan immediately goes on the offense for his crusade, revising what would have been his closing argument into what?
(a) An argument to counter an appeal.
(b) A legal request for anti-evolution laws in other states.
(c) A debate platform.
(d) A fiery speech.

2. A 1935 attempt to repeal the anti-evolution law receives what level of conservative attention?
(a) Only minimally arouses.
(b) Does wholly arouse.
(c) Does not wholly arouse.
(d) Virtually no attention arousal.

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

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

5. The Tennessee Supreme Court takes what action regarding Scopes' conviction?
(a) Sustains.
(b) Reverts to lower court.
(c) Upholds.
(d) Overturns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tennessee outlaws teaching that denies the biblical account of creation, so the defense wants to show what?

2. The prosecution argues that the law simply bars teaching evolution, regardless of what?

3. Jurors leave the courtroom again, and both sides argue admissibility of expert testimony on evolution for how long?

4. Prosecutors privately boast that they will ambush the defense, who will expect them to restrict the case to what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the questioning of the jury proceed?

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

3. What Scopes legend arose from 1931-1960?

4. What transpires in the 1950s?

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

6. What does Bryan do upon conclusion of the Scopes trial?

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

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

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

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

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