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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. How did Anne Marie's mother die?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Heart failure.
(c) A car accident.
(d) Shot herself.

2. What happened to break up the friendship between Zack, Dylan and Eric?
(a) Zack met a girl.
(b) Zack refused to have anything to do with a plan to shoot up the school.
(c) Eric and Dylan grew closer, leaving Zack out.
(d) Dylan and Zack argued.

3. Who brought in $300,000 for the Clement Park memorial?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) Sheryl Crow.
(c) Johnny Depp.
(d) Barack Obama.

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

5. Eric settled for making plans to destroy a high school, but what was his real desire?
(a) To kill all the Jews.
(b) To kill the jocks and bullies.
(c) To extinguish the species.
(d) To kill everyone who wasn't white.

Short Answer Questions

1. What class was Anne Hochhalter taking at the high school the year after the shooting?

2. Which of the following was not on Dylan's list of "pros" as he listed them two years prior to the shooting?

3. Which of the following was NOT one of the questions investigators faced after the four-hour meeting at the high school at the end of the week following the shooting?

4. What did Eric call his journal?

5. How did Aaron and Kevin get instructions on tending to Dave's wounds?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Mr. DeAngelo's life like in the years after the shooting?

2. What was the situation with gun clips that almost clued Eric's father in to the fact of Eric's gun possession?

3. What was the problem Misty Bernall and her publisher faced with regard to Misty's book about Cassie's death and what were her decision?

4. What were Dylan's beliefs about God and what did he believe God was doing to him personally?

5. What did Fuselier say about the dyad?

6. 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?

7. At the end of chapter one, the author noted the massacre at Columbine would become known as "the worst school shooting in America." Why would that have appalled Dylan and Eric?

8. What did Patrick come to realize about architecture school and why? What were his alternate plans?

9. What did the author say were the two main traits of a psychopath?

10. Why did the kids begin referring to the "Columbine Curse?"

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