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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 presiding judge wants an indictment as a conservative Christian, feeling a calling from God to officiate, and seeking what?

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

3. What is the response Darrow is seeking when questioning Bryan in the introduction?

4. The ACLU defends teachers fired for opposing World War I and fights school systems over what mandatory exercises?

5. On May 25, what does the grand jury hear?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Scopes seen as the ideal defendant?

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

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

4. In what fashion does defense attorney Darrow question Bryan?

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

6. William Jennings Bryan is one of the key players in this historical work. His role is what?

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

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

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

10. What were concerns the ACLU had about Darrow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the development of a powerful anti-evolution movement, as well as discovery of additional fossils and evidence for evolution necessary for the Scopes trial as it takes place?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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