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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. Who is the last witness for the prosecution who states that Scopes knew he was violating the law?

2. The nation's press quickly turns from the trial to what?

3. Bryan immediately goes on the offense for his crusade, revising what would have been his closing argument into what?

4. The anti-evolution crusade continues for a period after the trial, but fundamentalist political activity declines by when?

5. Darrow seeks an early ruling on whether scientific experts may testify, and the judge says he will hear the issue when?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What transpires in the 1950s?

6. What witnesses does the prosecution call?

7. Why is it important when Darrow ended?

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

9. What early legal issues echo the argument that is before the court?

10. How is Dayton left following the 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

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 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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