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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. Bryan involves himself in how many state anti-evolution proposals in 1923?

2. After defeat of the first bill for a ban on teaching evolution, Bryan argues that who should decide what is taught?

3. World War I plays an important role in the tensions between modernists and fundamentalists as what happens?

4. What else pushes evolution to the forefront of public debate in the early 1920s?

5. The text Scopes has been using while filling in for the regular biology teacher has what approval?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were concerns the ACLU had about Darrow?

2. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

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

4. What role does William Jennings Bryan play in the rise of the anti-evolutionary movement and events leading to the Scopes trial?

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

6. In his introduction, how does the author describe the scene where Clarence Darrow questions William Jennings Bryan?

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

8. What does George W. Rappleyea see upon viewing the press release about the trial in Dayton?

9. How do anti-evolutionists respond to new fossil discoveries and discussion of evolution?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the development of a powerful anti-evolution movement, as well as discovery of additional fossils and evidence for evolution necessary for the Scopes trial as it takes place?

Essay Topic 2

How do science and Christianity exist together prior to World War I? How does this change in the 1920s, and why?

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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