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Even number questions





What issue caused Bryan to interpret biblical passages rather than take the bible literally?


When Darrow was asked the purpose of the examination, how did he respond?


Why couldn't the alternative theories of evolution be considered a traditional christian doctrine as well?


What Enlightenment naturalist first acknowledged the earth's very long geologic history?


Bryan thought Darwinian evolution proposed to replace the Bible's "divine law of love" with what?


What 1921 resolution did Bryan immediately "adopt"?


Whose prominent silence left Governor Austin Peay "free to follow his personal and political inclinations"?


When and why was the National Civil Liberties Bureau established?


The Lusk committee was formed by the legislature for what purpose?


In the Schenck case Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes stated the extent of constitutional protection for political speech. "The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create" a what?


What famous case of alleged religious censorship took place in 1878?


What was Scopes's principal argument?


What did the president of Princeton "resent"?


What pre-trial courtroom renovation was symbolic of the trial itself?


What local practice governed jury selection?


How did the New York Times characterize the court debate?


What was Darrow's view of immortality?


What was different about the case on appeal, with respect to both the public and the attorneys, according to one reporter?


With what was fundamentalism increasingly associated, due to Scopes?


What did the actor Tony Randall wonder?


Who was the jurist from Memphis with a special interest in Scopes?





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Even number questions


Chapman says he's afraid not of death but of what?


Deciding _____ is "profoundly complicated."


What was the title of Chapman's first published work?


What local obsession astonished Chapman as he approached Dayton?


What's the point of drinking in England?


Who was Nathan Leopold, and what did he believe himself to be?


Descendants of great men tend to have what, according to Chapman?


Why does Jim McKenzie think he survived being shot?


What kind of evil haunted Kurt Wise?


Chapman lost his faith in God at what age?


With what adjective does Chapman imagine his family's view of his return to Tennessee?


What's the "redneck's" response to Chapman's statement that there does seem to be some evidence for evolution?


What was "the high point of the trial"?


Of what are drugs symptomatic, according to Chapman?


Who was Chapman's Freudian analyst?


Into what rationalistic trap have creationists been seduced?


Who are the lead actors in Consenting Adults?


What are the three circles of responsibility?


What metaphorical object does the vicar produce, to characterize Chapman's mother's posthumous condition?