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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?

2. Darrow defends John Scopes for violating which laws, saying evolution cannot be taught in public schools?

3. Darrow grows to see evolutionary theory as a way of doing what?

4. When does John W. Butler propose it a misdemeanor to teach that man evolves, "from a lower order of animal" instead of the biblical account?

5. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Darrow become involved in the Scopes trial on the defense side?

2. What is the find that paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels Eoanthropus dasoni?

3. William Jennings Bryan is one of the key players in this historical work. His role is what?

4. What takes place as word of the Piltdown skull leaks into popular society?

5. What does federalism grow out of?

6. What key individuals come aboard the day after George W. Rappleyea?

7. Although Darrow never specifically asked about evolution, he did lead Bryan through a series of questions intended to show what?

8. Why is it that the anti-evolution movement's lack of a clear, specific legal or political issue changes by late 1921?

9. What is Georges Cuvier's theory that is more widely accepted than Chevalier de Lamarck's?

10. What is the evolutionary theory that French naturalist Chevalier de Lamarck suggests more than a century prior to Darwin's?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What reasons seem to make Dayton an unlikely selection for the trial to take place? What aspects would seem more likely of a town where Scopes' trial would transpire?

Essay Topic 2

What general sentiments permeating American society, both during and immediately subsequent to World War I, have been significantly responsible for the ACLU being largely unsuccessful in the legal cases they have taken up prior to the Scopes trial? Individuals challenging these ideologies have what strikes against them?

Essay Topic 3

What sort of contrast to each other do Bryan and Darrow present? How do their respective personalities and feelings concerning the causes they believe in affect the trial? What roles do differences in their religious beliefs or lack thereof, and views of human evolution theories play?

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