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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. The 1920s see some evolution theories fitting within Christian views change as anti-evolutionists gain ground, primarily among whom?

2. Darwin's view of random variations and survival-of-the-fittest pose problems for many Christians holding what view of nature?

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

4. It seems an irregular case as the ACLU is paying litigation costs, and the prosecution is acting under whom?

5. What does Bryan do in view of a literal Biblical interpretation and scientific facts when Darrow questions him?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the Tennessee law against teaching evolution is enacted, what does the ACLU do?

2. How is it that this case does not seem normal from the start?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In his introduction, how does the author describe the scene where Clarence Darrow questions William Jennings Bryan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

At the start, the defense challenges the anti-abortion law's constitutionality in a motion to quash the indictment by identifying fourteen separate objections. What does the defense stress? What does the prosecution argue regarding the majority? Why is Darrow's rebuttal important? What reasons does the defense argue that makes the statute illegal? What does he contend regarding the biblical accounts?

Essay Topic 3

How does the shift in memories regarding the trial make the political landscape in the 1960s? Challenges to what type of statutes are made? In what fashion are the first and fourteenth amendments being applied at the state level? What was happening to anti-evolution laws?

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