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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. Dayton, between Knoxville and Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley, is in what part of Tennessee?

2. By 1925, the ACLU still seeks a court win, mainly as the first amendment's wording does not necessarily protect freedom of speech at what level?

3. Who spurs the idea that science and religion conflict, and deny a growing consensus among theologians and scientists by the 1900s?

4. It seems an irregular case as the ACLU is paying litigation costs, and the prosecution is acting under whom?

5. Scopes is the ideal defendant in many ways being young, single, shy, well-liked, and what else?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

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

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

5. What are two legal battles that helped make Darrow prominent?

6. What is the position that Bryan comes to aid in prosecuting?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What moment does Larson describe in the Introduction? What is he seeking to do? What individuals are the readers introduced to? What is the status between them?

Essay Topic 3

What effects upon collective memories of trial events transpire over time? How does the socio-political context of subsequent time periods influence these effects?

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