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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Misty Bernall want to be the focus of the book she wrote about Cassie?
(a) The final moment of Cassie's life.
(b) The day Cassie accepted God as her savior.
(c) The impact of Cassie's death.
(d) Cassie's life and struggles prior to the shooting.

2. Who was the person Eric had the most difficulty fooling with his various acts?
(a) Dave Sanders.
(b) Wayne Harris.
(c) Mr. DeAngelo.
(d) Dylan.

3. What did the author say was the number one way an adult could stop a school bombing?
(a) Metal detectors.
(b) Search all students entering or leaving the building.
(c) Watch for students with bulky bags.
(d) Advance confessions.

4. What was Mr. DeAngelo's mission the year after the shooting?
(a) To keep the school safe from another attack.
(b) To atone for his failure to the victims.
(c) To get the freshman class through graduation.
(d) To atone for his failure to Dylan and Eric.

5. What caused Patrick to start crying for the first time after the shooting?
(a) The sight of his mother crying.
(b) The realization that he had almost died.
(c) The information that his friend, Corey DePooter had died.
(d) The information that he would never walk again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were there two hundred doves released at the service dedicating the memorial?

2. How did Kevin suggest Dave be taken out of the room?

3. What was the piece of information Fuselier gained from the first words of Eric's journal?

4. What did Eric call his journal?

5. In Chapter 29, the author described "missions" Eric, Dylan, and Zack carried out. Who chose the targets of those missions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did some students believe to be a major problem with the way Mr. DeAngelo ran the school?

2. What was the situation SWAT faced once they were inside the building?

3. What did the classmate who accompanied Eric to his first Homecoming at Columbine High School recall about him and why didn't she go out with him again?

4. What did Misty Bernall answer when Oprah asked if she wished Cassie had denied her Christianity in the hope that she might not be killed?

5. Why did the idea of the Trench Coat Mafia as a group of shooters become popularly accepted?

6. What piece of evidence did Fuselier discover that led him to the conclusion that Eric and Dylan hadn't targeted individual students and what was it that made that clear to him?

7. What was the message Brian Rohrbough crafted for the memorial, what did officials ask him to do, and why did he win the argument?

8. What was the challenge Patrick faced during his rehabilitation period with regard to speech and what happened when he was given a pen and paper?

9. What did the author say people thought about the final actions of Dylan's and Eric's lives and what did he say were the actual reasons they didn't continue killing until they were gunned down by police?

10. What was the discrepancy between what Frank DeAngelo remembered about the first moments of the shooting and what his secretary remembered, and how did the author explain the difference?

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