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

2. How many conservatives gather at the first World's Christian Fundamentals Association conference in 1919?

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

4. The National Civil Liberties Bureau was established when to defend protesters and conscientious objectors to World War I?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What descriptions and statements does Larson utilize to portray the scene of the trial? What is it the reader easily views, and why?

Essay Topic 2

What controversies take place regarding daily prayers during the trial? What objections does the defense make, and why? What do they request? What position does the prosecution maintain? Upon hearing the judge's decision, what is expected and what finally results?

Essay Topic 3

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

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