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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. Defense counters that the prosecution's opening is all a matter of interpretation and what?

2. The public displays what regarding formal debates over support and opposition to the evolution theory?

3. By ending the defense without a closing argument, Darrow averts what?

4. Who attends a sermon Bryan gives in Dayton on Sunday (12th) immediately after the first trial date?

5. Prosecutors privately boast that they will ambush the defense, who will expect them to restrict the case to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How is Dayton left following the trial?

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

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

8. How does Davenport prepare for the trial?

9. Why is it important when Darrow ended?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What moment does Larson describe in the Introduction? What is he seeking to do? What individuals are the readers introduced to? What is the status between them?

Essay Topic 2

What sort of contrast to each other do Bryan and Darrow present? How do their respective personalities and feelings concerning the causes they believe in affect the trial? What roles do differences in their religious beliefs or lack thereof, and views of human evolution theories play?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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