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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 do individuals frequently refer to the Scopes trial as?

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

3. Bryan and fundamentalists help revive talk about evolution and religious implications into what type of political issue?

4. The anti-evolution crusade revives in the 1920s due partly to high school enrollments at all time highs and what else?

5. The scene that the author refers to in his Introduction is said to be reminiscent of what dramatic scenes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does federalism grow out of?

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

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

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

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

8. Why is it that the ACLU is concerned about the academic freedom around which the Scopes trial centers?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

What reasons seem to make Dayton an unlikely selection for the trial to take place? What aspects would seem more likely of a town where Scopes' trial would transpire?

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