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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. Who led the student body in on the day of the ribbon cutting on the remodeled school building?
(a) Patrick Ireland.
(b) Mr. DeAngelo.
(c) Misty Bernall.
(d) Anne Hochhalter.

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

3. Why did doctors decide not to operate on Patrick's foot?
(a) They believed he wouldn't survive another surgery.
(b) They believed he would never walk anyway.
(c) His parents refused consent.
(d) There was nothing they could do to save it.

4. Where was Patrick when he had his first full-blown seizure?
(a) School.
(b) London.
(c) At home.
(d) In the hospital.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused Patrick to start crying for the first time after the shooting?

2. What did Eric call his journal?

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

4. What Biblical character did Dylan compare himself to?

5. What did the author say was extraordinary about the extra edition of the Rocky Mountain News that was on the street before the bodies in the library had even been found?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What were the main points of the "how-to guides" issued by the government in the years following Columbine?

5. 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?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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