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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. In defending conscientious objectors and war protesters, National Civil Liberties Bureau activists see that what are not the same?
2. The National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?
3. Larson shows that how many theories of evolutionary development fit nicely within a Christian explanation of the world?
4. Bryan offers his services to the prosecution in mid-May despite not having been practicing law for how long?
5. Another ACLU worry, if both Darrow and Bryan work on the trial, is that it would become a clash between what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are two legal battles that helped make Darrow prominent?
2. What role does William Jennings Bryan play in the rise of the anti-evolutionary movement and events leading to the Scopes trial?
3. What is the evolutionary theory that French naturalist Chevalier de Lamarck suggests more than a century prior to Darwin's?
4. What is the position that Bryan comes to aid in prosecuting?
5. What is the position Darrow comes to help in defending?
6. What does federalism grow out of?
7. Although Darrow never specifically asked about evolution, he did lead Bryan through a series of questions intended to show what?
8. In his introduction, how does the author describe the scene where Clarence Darrow questions William Jennings Bryan?
9. In what fashion does defense attorney Darrow question Bryan?
10. How does Darrow become involved in the Scopes trial on the defense side?
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
Why is the timing of the anti-evolution movement in the 1920s so pivotal? How does the combination of compulsory education and child labor laws factor in?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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