True or False?

Question

2. John Scopes was the persecuted school teacher who was immediately jailed for teaching evolution when his classroom was invaded. He remained in jail throughout the trial.

False. His classroom was never invaded as depicted in Inherit the Wind, and he was never jailed or in danger of imprisonment.)

Throughout the trial, the definition of the term evolution was so muddled by the defense and its witnesses that it seems unlikely that any of the jurors could have known exactly what evolution is and is not.

Evolution was repeatedly confused with such ideas like embryology and aging.)

The students of John Scopes were coached by the defense team to perjure themselves by saying they were taught evolution in the classroom. Famous evolutionist attorney Clarence Darrow, who was supposed to defend his client from a law that forbade the teaching of evolution, coached the students to lie and claim that Scopes taught evolution, when in fact he didn’t.)


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Answer 1

False...
While John Scopes was the teacher that was tried for expounding the theory of evolution, his classroom was not invaded, he was not immediately jailed, and he was free to go to New York to meet with a law firm to discuss the organization of his defense and which lawyer he wanted to represent him
"A date “with a beautiful blonde” at an upcoming church social kept Scopes in Dayton for a few days beyond his originally scheduled departure in May of 1925, at the end of the Rhea County school term. He was playing tennis one hot afternoon on the town’s tennis court when a small boy approached him. You’re wanted down at “Doc” Robinson’s drugstore, the boy said. ................
One of the enduring debates concerning the Scopes trial revolves around whether Scopes ever actually taught the subject of evolution. George Rappalyea posed the question, holding up a copy of George W. Hunter’s Civic Biology, at Robinson’s drugstore. “You have been teaching ‘em this book?” he asked. Scopes answered, “Yes,” then went on to explain that, while substituting for the regular biology teacher in April 1925, he had assigned his students Hunter’s chapter on evolution. Illness the next day, however, kept him home and, to his recollection, no class discussion of the evolution materials ever took place. Scopes, however, remembered teaching the topic in a general way earlier in the same month to his general science students............
Defendants, as a general rule, select their own attorneys. In the Scopes case, however, the ACLU—as the organization that would pay the defense bills—had its own strong ideas about who should defend the teaching of evolution, and those ideas did not include Clarence Darrow. The ACLU asked Scopes to travel to its headquarters in New York City in early June for several days of meetings to decide the important question of representation. .............
From New York, Scopes headed back to Tennessee by way of Washington. He took time in the nation’s capital to inspect a copy of the Constitution at the Library of Congress, and take in the majesty of the Supreme Court’s marble hearing room, where—it was hoped at the time—his case might someday end up."
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/SCO_SCO.HTM

Answer 2

False. Some lawyers were looking for defendants for the case to get some publicity for the town, and he probably never even taught evolution (which was legal anyway as long as you didn't teach it INSTEAD of the bible story). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scopes .

Answer 3

True. I don't know if he was held in jail the whole time, but he was fired from his job. Because it was illegal to teach evolution in the mid 1900's.

Answer 4

False.

Answer 5

True, he was the "Scopes" in the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial".

Answer 6

um! is this a trick question?

Answer 7

True!