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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. In the 1920s, which denominational leaders stress the divine inspiration of the Bible and its literal interpretation?

2. What do members of the ACLU view the Tennessee statute as one more attempt to do?

3. Some geologists reconcile biblical accounts with theories of the earth's lengthy geologic past and extinct species by positing how?

4. What is one ACLU concern with Darrow?

5. As desire for academic freedom spreads to high schools, the ACLU defends teachers and what else?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Darrow become involved in the Scopes trial on the defense side?

7. Why is it that the anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s?

8. What does federalism grow out of?

9. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

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

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

Essay Topic 2

What general sentiments permeating American society, both during and immediately subsequent to World War I, have been significantly responsible for the ACLU being largely unsuccessful in the legal cases they have taken up prior to the Scopes trial? Individuals challenging these ideologies have what strikes against them?

Essay Topic 3

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

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