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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. After the war, the National Civil Liberties Bureau changes its name to what to reflect its new focus defending labor union activists?

2. Which two young attorneys agree to serve on the prosecution?

3. Bryan hears of the proposal to ban teaching evolution, and as he supports the idea in talks and writing, he does what else?

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

5. What do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Darrow become involved in the Scopes trial on the defense side?

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

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

4. What does federalism grow out of?

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

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

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

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

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

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 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?

Essay Topic 2

In the introduction to Summer of the Gods, Edward J. Larson focuses on the two principal attorneys in the trial. What are the professional backgrounds of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan? Why are they each so keen on participating in the trial? How do their respective personalities and feelings concerning the causes they believe in affect the trial?

Essay Topic 3

What sort of contrast to each other do Bryan and Darrow present? How do their respective personalities and feelings concerning the causes they believe in affect the trial? What roles do differences in their religious beliefs or lack thereof, and views of human evolution theories play?

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