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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 does the defense stress?

2. With the McCarthy-era attacks on individual liberty and rights, what does the trial come to symbolize?

3. Debates show that many who doubt the evolution theory feel how as to its inclusion in school curricula?

4. Middle ground exists between the modernists and fundamentalists, and it garners what amount of attention?

5. Only Yesterday is written by Harper's editor Frederick Lewis Allen and published in which year?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do fundamentalists approach modernists and evolutionists to debate?

2. Henry Fairfield Osborn approaches the trial in what fashion?

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

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

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

6. What Scopes legend arose from 1931-1960?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What controversies take place regarding daily prayers during the trial? What objections does the defense make, and why? What do they request? What position does the prosecution maintain? Upon hearing the judge's decision, what is expected and what finally results?

Essay Topic 2

At the beginning, how do the members of the Dayton group handle decision-making in challenging the Tennessee law? What did they seek to accomplish? How does this change subsequent to Darrow and Bryan coming into the picture?

Essay Topic 3

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

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