21. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 21: The Scopes “Monkey Trial”

**Quiz for Document 21.3: William Jennings Bryan, Trial Speech (July 16, 1925)**

Quiz for Document 21.3: William Jennings Bryan, Trial Speech (July 16, 1925)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. In his remarks to the court, William Jennings Bryan paints advocates of evolution in Tennessee as

Jewish intellectuals.

a dangerous minority.

corrupt city people.

atheists.

2. According to William Jennings Bryan, the problem with teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in school is that

it implies that humans are a low order species.

Tennessee teachers cannot understand the science behind it.

there is no scientific evidence to prove the theory behind it.

it teaches the state’s students that the Bible is not true.

3. In his role as an attorney participating in the state’s prosecution of Scopes, William Jennings Bryan’s goal was to

protect traditional rural Protestant values.

protect Tennesseans’ First Amendment rights.

advance his political reputation.

challenge the notion that church and state should be separate.

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