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

2. High school texts are rewritten in the wake of the trial, with many doing what?

3. The jury lets the judge impose the minimum fine of how much?

4. Scopes leaves following the verdict to study where?

5. About how many reporters cover the trial from Dayton?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does the questioning of the jury proceed?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What strategic planning takes place on both the parts of the prosecution and the defense? Why do they pursue their different approaches?

Essay Topic 2

Why is the timing of the anti-evolution movement in the 1920s so pivotal? How does the combination of compulsory education and child labor laws factor in?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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