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

2. Bryan is caught between arguing for a literal interpretation of the Bible and accommodating facts about what?

3. What position does Bryan previously serve in, but later resign from?

4. The anti-evolution movement develops during the 1920s as it does due to Bryan's leadership and what else?

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

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

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

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

7. Although Darrow never specifically asked about evolution, he did lead Bryan through a series of questions intended to show what?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

At the beginning, how do the members of the Dayton group handle decision-making in challenging the Tennessee law? What did they seek to accomplish? How does this change subsequent to Darrow and Bryan coming into the picture?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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