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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 ACLU begins preparing for an appeal and tries to exclude Darrow from the proceedings. What does he do?

2. Both sides use the media in attempts to throw off the other. How?

3. Scopes leaves following the verdict to study where?

4. Under cross-examination, White admits that who officially adopts the text?

5. The jury lets the judge impose the minimum fine of how much?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which side is seen as the true winner of the Scopes trial?

2. What early legal issues echo the argument that is before the court?

3. Why is Monday, the second trial date, essential for the defense?

4. Why are court proceedings moved to the courthouse lawn?

5. What are the primary positions of the defense and the prosecution?

6. What transpires within the anti-evolution crusade following the Scopes trial?

7. How is Dayton left following the trial?

8. Was there any middle ground between the modernists and fundamentalists?

9. What did McCarthy-era attacks bring the Scopes trial to symbolize?

10. How does the questioning of the jury proceed?

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

What role does the media play in the Scopes trial? How does it view the press releases and lectures that the lawyers of both sides offer?

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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