View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 fiery speech.
(c) A legal request for anti-evolution laws in other states.
(d) A debate platform.

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

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

5. What does the defense stress?
(a) Freedom of religion, separation of church and state.
(b) Freedom of speech, separation of church and state.
(c) Freedom of education, speech, religion.
(d) Freedom of speech, religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. The modern Scopes legend arises in part by the release of Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s and what other film?

2. How does the prosecution handle jury selection?

3. The person who has been debating Bryan over the years increases his efforts to show what as the trial nears?

4. On what grounds does Darrow argue that the statute is illegal, given that it imposes a specific religious stance?

5. Who, at the time, sees the trial as a clear-cut victory for the defense or the prosecution?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is it important when Darrow ended?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does the questioning of the jury proceed?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,013 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample