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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 Val say was the most difficult part of the healing process?
(a) Forgiving them for scarring her body.
(b) Forgiving them for shooting her friend, Lauren.
(c) Forgiving others for not stopping Dylan and Eric.
(d) Forgiving them for totally destroying her senior year.

2. What was Cassie reading in the moments before her death?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Prep for the ACT.
(c) The Bible
(d) Computers for Dummies.

3. How did Brooks Brown know about the threats against Brooks Eric posted on his website?
(a) A teacher found the posts and alerted police.
(b) Dylan told him about them, prompting Brooks to look.
(c) Eric tagged Brooks, prompting him to look.
(d) Brooks checked Eric's website daily.

4. What did Eric call his journal?
(a) The Book of Eric.
(b) The Book of God.
(c) The Word According to Eric.
(d) Between God and Eric.

5. What happens to bring an end to the extensive media coverage of the Columbine shootings?
(a) Tornadoes in Oklahoma.
(b) An earthquake in Japan.
(c) A volcano eruption in Europe.
(d) A flood in Louisiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Biblical quote Brian Rohrbrough included on his memorial to Patrick?

2. What did Bob say was his reason for wanting to meet with the parents of Eric and Dylan?

3. What was Mr. DeAngelo doing when he learned there were shots being fired?

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

5. What did Eric name his shotgun?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Describe the story Dylan had written for a creative writing assignment, where he got his information, and the reaction of his teacher.

6. What did Fuselier say about the dyad?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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