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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. How many high school students testify that Scopes once discussed human evolution with them?

2. The nation's press quickly turns from the trial to what?

3. Jury selection begins when on Friday (10th)?

4. Larson illustrates how collective memories of events do what?

5. Once proceedings are over, the jury returns to the room for instructions, having heard how much testimony and questioning?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Dayton left following the trial?

2. Why does the prosecution object to Darrow questioning Metcalf?

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

4. What witnesses does the prosecution call?

5. What does Bryan do the first weekend after jury selection?

6. Who does Scopes confer with in New York the month before the trial?

7. What does Bryan do upon conclusion of the Scopes trial?

8. What is the issue over the morning prayer at the trial?

9. Why is it important when Darrow ended?

10. What transpires in the 1950s?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the conception of individual rights change in comparison with majoritarian argument? In what manner does it affect individuals in their identification with defense arguments? Why is this so?

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 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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