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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. Bryan leaves legal issues to the other lawyers and assumes responsibility to do what?

2. What does the defense stress?

3. Other writers follow Allen's unintentional reconstructions and view the trial as the last stand of what?

4. On Wednesday (15th), the judge recalls the jurors and instructs each side to do what?

5. By the 1950s, the trial becomes popular among historians and is often shown whose victory?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is it in the final analysis that neither side is able to claim a decisive victory?

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

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

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

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

9. What, essentially, do the prosecution and the defense offer when the judge instructs them to make their opening statements?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What general sentiments permeating American society, both during and immediately subsequent to World War I, have been significantly responsible for the ACLU being largely unsuccessful in the legal cases they have taken up prior to the Scopes trial? Individuals challenging these ideologies have what strikes against them?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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