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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. Through what method does Bryan want to debunk evolution theories?

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

3. Why is the same grand jury that convened several months prior now returning?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What transpires in the 1950s?

2. Why is it important which witness the defense opens with?

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

4. How does the questioning of the jury proceed?

5. How does Davenport prepare for the trial?

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

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

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

9. Why is it important when Darrow ended?

10. How is Bryan at the center of the pretrial publicity?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the Scopes trial widely regarded as the trial of the century?

Essay Topic 2

How is the development of a powerful anti-evolution movement, as well as discovery of additional fossils and evidence for evolution necessary for the Scopes trial as it takes place?

Essay Topic 3

How do the origins of the ACLU put them in a position to test the Tennessee law and help in Scopes' defense?

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