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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. 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. Bryan offers his services to the prosecution in mid-May despite not having been practicing law for how long?

4. Futile attempts of the ACLU in cases before Scopes' trial are likely because of what general attitude during and directly after World War I?

5. In 1925, Dayton Tennessee is what type of town?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the position Darrow comes to help in defending?

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

9. What does federalism grow out of?

10. What were concerns the ACLU had about Darrow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

How do science and Christianity exist together prior to World War I? How does this change in the 1920s, and why?

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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