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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. Over a century before the Piltdown skull find, who argues that environmental changes may affect biological makeup, and changes pass down to offspring?

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

3. The ACLU fights curricula, especially any promoting patriotism openly and labeling anything what as bad?

4. On May 25, what does the grand jury hear?

5. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does World War I play in the tensions between fundamentalists and modernists?

2. Why does the National Civil Liberties Bureau change its name to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?

3. How is it that this case does not seem normal from the start?

4. What initial legislative reform does Bryan seek prior to Tennessee?

5. When the Tennessee law against teaching evolution is enacted, what does the ACLU do?

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

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

8. In what fashion does defense attorney Darrow question Bryan?

9. What are some of the similarities Darrow will present in comparison to Bryan?

10. Why is it that the ACLU is concerned about the academic freedom around which the Scopes trial centers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the Scopes trial widely regarded as the trial of the century?

Essay Topic 2

What role does the media play in the Scopes trial? How does it view the press releases and lectures that the lawyers of both sides offer?

Essay Topic 3

How does the shift in memories regarding the trial make the political landscape in the 1960s? Challenges to what type of statutes are made? In what fashion are the first and fourteenth amendments being applied at the state level? What was happening to anti-evolution laws?

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