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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 was Mr. DeAngelo doing when he learned there were shots being fired?
(a) Talking to an angry parent.
(b) Working on a report for the board of education.
(c) About to offer a teacher a job.
(d) Disciplining a student.

2. What was Misty's job before she'd quit to be a full-time mom?
(a) Financial analyst.
(b) Industrial engineer.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Loan officer.

3. What was Judy Brown's response when Wayne Harris said Eric had confessed to being afraid of her?
(a) That she was calling the police.
(b) That Eric had attacked her car.
(c) That she'd never done anything to him.
(d) That Eric is a liar.

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

5. What was Eric's reaction when the Marines determined he was ineligible for duty?
(a) He'd never known.
(b) He'd been ecstatic.
(c) He'd been relieved.
(d) He'd been furious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did trauma experts say should be the goal of the renovations to the high school?

2. Who led the student body in on the day of the ribbon cutting on the remodeled school building?

3. Why did Dylan and Eric decide to simply walk into the lunch room with the bombs?

4. How long did it take for the first SWAT team to enter the school building?

5. What did Misty decide to call the book she planned to write about Cassie?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What were some of the things on Dylan's "bad list" as outlined in Chapter 33?

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

6. Describe the incident involving the crosses.

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

8. Describe the "missions" Eric, Dylan, and Zack perpetrated and how their targets were chosen.

9. What were the messages from Dylan and Eric about their parents on the final edition of the Basement Tapes?

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

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