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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the piece of information Fuselier gained from the first words of Eric's journal?
2. What was Mr. DeAngelo's mission the year after the shooting?
3. How long did it take Fuselier to read Eric's diary for the first time?
4. What was the basis for the Klebold's lawsuit against the sheriff's department?
5. How did Anne Marie's mother die?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the idea of the Trench Coat Mafia as a group of shooters become popularly accepted?
2. Why did the Jefco Sheriff say it took so long for police to get into the building and bring the victims out?
3. What did Patrick come to realize about architecture school and why? What were his alternate plans?
4. 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?
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 some students believe to be a major problem with the way Mr. DeAngelo ran the school?
7. 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?
8. What was the message Brian Rohrbough crafted for the memorial, what did officials ask him to do, and why did he win the argument?
9. What did the author say were the two main traits of a psychopath?
10. Describe the "missions" Eric, Dylan, and Zack perpetrated and how their targets were chosen.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why were the actions of Dylan and Eric so difficult for the public to understand? What was the impact of their deaths on the investigation and the recovery? Why did the Klebold's attorney warn them that the public was going to hate them? Was he correct?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the wait by the parents of the dead students in the hours after the shooting. How did some of them learn the fate of their children? What do you believe prompted the district attorney and other officials to keep the identities secret that first day? Were they correct?
Essay Topic 3
Describe at least three of the lawsuits that were filed, including the one filed by Isaiah Shoels' family and the one filed by the Klebolds. Include the purposes for each and the outcome. What was the outcome of civil suits filed against the families of the shooters?
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