Q 01/05

Which celebrated author and lecturer, a Radcliffe College graduate, was among the founders of the ACLU in 1920?

A) Helen Keller

B) Edna Ferber

C) Willa Cather

D) Pearl S. Buck

Answer · why

A) Helen Keller

Helen Keller helped launch the ACLU eleven years after joining the Socialist Party; she also campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights and world p...

Q 02/05

The ACLU recruited teacher John Scopes in 1925 to defy a state law against teaching which scientific theory?

A) Relativity

B) Continental drift

C) Germ theory

D) Evolution

Answer · why

D) Evolution

Evolution was barred from the state's public schools by the Butler Act. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100, but the verdict was overturned on a te...

Q 03/05

In Brandenburg v. Ohio, the ACLU won a landmark 1969 free-speech ruling while defending a leader of which group?

A) Weather Underground

B) Ku Klux Klan

C) Communist Party USA

D) American Nazi Party

Answer · why

B) Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan leader Brandenburg had invited a TV reporter to film a rally in rural Ohio. The Court held that only speech advocating imminent violence ...

Q 04/05

The ACLU defended a neo-Nazi group's right to march in 1977 in which Illinois suburb, home to many Holocaust survivors?

A) Cicero

B) Evanston

C) Skokie

D) Oak Park

Answer · why

C) Skokie

Skokie answered the permit request with an injunction and new ordinances. Taking the case cost the ACLU's Illinois affiliate about a quarter of its me...

Q 05/05

Which gun-rights group did the ACLU represent at the Supreme Court in 2024, winning a unanimous free-speech ruling?

A) Gun Owners of America

B) Second Amendment Foundation

C) Firearms Policy Coalition

D) National Rifle Association

Answer · why

D) National Rifle Association

The National Rifle Association was represented by the ACLU's David Cole, who argued that a state regulator had pressed banks and insurers to cut ties ...