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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. Paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward labels the Piltdown skull from a new species from what extinct primate?

2. Universities begin incorporating tenure and academic freedom to protect the freedom of what?

3. What does the jaw for the Piltdown skull appear to be of?

4. Dayton is an unlikely choice for the trial, as it is more rural, dwindling in numbers, and what?

5. In introducing Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Larson centers on questioning, focusing on what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were concerns the ACLU had about Darrow?

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

5. Why is it that the anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s?

6. What are essential things that took place during the preliminary hearing on May 9, 1925?

7. What is the position Darrow comes to help in defending?

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

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

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 strategic planning takes place on both the parts of the prosecution and the defense? Why do they pursue their different approaches?

Essay Topic 2

What is the Piltdown skull? What is its significance? What leads scientists to believe it was hominoid? What was unique about the jaw? What was Arthur Smith Woodward's connection to the skull and his importance? Why is it the larger American begins to take notice?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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