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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. Where did Dylan and Eric go for dinner on Monday night before Tuesday's shootings?

3. Who was the person Eric had the most difficulty fooling with his various acts?

4. What did Eric do when he became bored with the images on the Doom game?

5. Why did the boy named Mitchell say he believed Dylan and Eric killed their fellow students?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Jefco Sheriff say it took so long for police to get into the building and bring the victims out?

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. What did Fuselier say about the dyad?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the healing process for at least four members of the community. What were the challenges, the time frames, and the methods? Which do you believe exhibited the most effective methods of healing?

Essay Topic 2

What was the official response to the shooting? Who was initially in charge? What was the situation at the scene in the moments after the shooting was reported? What changed about police protocol after the Columbine shooting?

Essay Topic 3

Describe some of the myths that arose following the shooting. Why were some of these myths perpetrated? Why did the public seize the ideas that Dylan and Eric were Goth, were picked on, and were targeting specific kids as victims? What was wrong with those ideas?

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