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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 and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?

2. Greater student numbers plus the growing fundamentalist movement means conservative Christian parents find what is coming into conflict?

3. By choosing the trial moment that he selects in his Introduction, what does the author do?

4. Anti-evolutionists gain a political and legal issue when a group in which state calls for a law against teaching evolution?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the evolutionary theory that French naturalist Chevalier de Lamarck suggests more than a century prior to Darwin's?

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

7. How is it that, by the turn of the 20th century, writers and historians are keeping alive the idea of disagreement between religion and science?

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

9. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

10. Why is it that the anti-evolution movement's lack of a clear, specific legal or political issue changes by late 1921?

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

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

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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