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WorksheetsMonkey Business
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What crime was John Scopes accused of committing?
a)
Contributing to the delinquency of a minor
b)
Teaching religion
c)
Teaching evolution
d)
Conspiracy
2.
What law did Scopes violate?
a)
The Stamp Act
b)
The First Amendment
c)
The Butler Act
d)
The Quartering Act
3.
People who supported the Butler Act opposed ...
a)
The teaching of evolution in public schools
b)
the ban on the teaching of evolution
c)
religious teaching in public school
d)
Jar Jar
4.
What civil rights group sponsored Scopes in his stand against this law?
a)
The Freedom Riders
b)
The Million Man March
c)
The Little Rock 8
d)
The American Civil Liberties Union
5.
Which of the following was a prosecutor in the case?
a)
Dudley Field Malone
b)
Willian Jennings Bryan
c)
Clarence Darrow
d)
Johnny Cochrane
6.
Which of the following was a member of the defense team?
a)
William Jennings Bryan
b)
Clarence Darrow
c)
Dudley Field Malone
d)
Both Darrow and Malone
7.
Scopes and his team stood for
a)
Modernity
b)
Traditionalism
c)
Fundamentalism
d)
Jedi-ism
8.
Modernists believed...
a)
In science and technology
b)
That traditionlist views were responsibe for social ills such as slavery and war
c)
That the power to reshape, create, and improve the world lay in the hands of human beings aided by science and innovation
d)
all of the above
9.
Bryan and his team stood for ...
a)
hours in line waiting to see Star Wars.
b)
Modernity
c)
Traditionalism
d)
The rights of bears
10.
Traditionalists believed...
a)
that the new ideas, technologies, and social practices of the 1920's were immoral and dangerous
b)
that the teaching of evolution undermined Christian values
c)
That modern society was becoming materialaistic and selfish
d)
All of the above
11.
A traditionalist who believed in the literal interpretation of the Bible was called a
a)
Fundamentalist
b)
Bibliophile
c)
Literalist
d)
Biologist
12.
A prevalent social conflict between big cites and small towns in the 1920s led to stereotypes on both sides and was known as:
a)
the Feud of the Hatfields and the McCoys
b)
The Yankee-Dixie Divide
c)
The Urban-Rural Divide
d)
The North-South Bias
13.
Generally speaking, many people from the cities favored ____________ views and believed that "country folk" were _________________.
a)
fundamentalist... sinners
b)
modernist... "backward"
c)
chocolate...vanilla
d)
monkey...bananas
14.
Generally speaking, many people from the small towns favored ____________ views and believed that "city folk" were _________________.
a)
traditionalist...corrupt and immoral
b)
scientific...related to apes
c)
modernist...more intelligent
d)
fundamentalist... an evil alien species
15.
The Ku Klux Klan, which was gaining social and political influence in the 1920s,_______________ the teaching of evolution because....
a)
supported...Darwin was brilliant
b)
encouraged...they wanted to use scientific experiments to create a master race
c)
opposed ...it suggested ALL human beings evolved from the same species
d)
rejected...they couldn't read
16.
John Scopes hoped to be found ______________ because_________________.
a)
innocent...he couldn't remember if he actually taught the concept
b)
innocent...he taught from an approved textbook
c)
guilty... he wanted to challenge the law at the highest level (The U.S. Supreme Court)
d)
guilty...he wanted to go to jail for his beliefs
17.
John Scopes was found __________________ and ________________.
a)
innocent... kept his teaching job
b)
innocent...fired from his teaching job
c)
guilty...fined $100
d)
guilty...sentenced to life in prison
18.
The verdict was...
a)
unanimous
b)
upheld by the Supreme Court
c)
overturned on a technicality
d)
appealed
19.
Many local business owners encouraged Scopes to test the law because...
a)
They believed in the science
b)
They weren't Christian
c)
The publicity created profit for them
d)
They thought Scopes was annoying and wanted him to go to jail
20.
The debate surrounding the Scopes trial was also about...
a)
moderist v. traditionalist social values and the urban-rural divide
b)
publicity and profit and racial inequality
c)
Intellectual Freedom and Religious freedom
d)
All of the these
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