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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 distracted Eric from following Nielson?
(a) Eric's cell phone rang.
(b) Dave Sanders yelled at him.
(c) Dylan's gun jammed.
(d) The arrival of a police car with lights and sirens.

2. In his essay about fishing trips with his father, what did Dylan say about his brother drinking coffee?
(a) That he drank it to impress their dad.
(b) Tht he drank it with a lot of sugar.
(c) That it mde him hyperactive and impossible to live with.
(d) That he loved coffee and couldn't get enough.

3. How many people attended Eric's funeral?
(a) No one knows, it was secret.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Three.

4. Why did the police ask the media to stop showing live footage of the scene?
(a) They wanted to contain information leaking out.
(b) They didn't ask.
(c) Rooms were equipped with televisions so the shooters could be watching.
(d) The parents of the dead students had not been notified.

5. Where did the deputy write the name "Ned Harris" when one student said that's the name of the shooter?
(a) On the sack he'd had his lunch in.
(b) On the side of a shed.
(c) On a napkin.
(d) On the hood of the patrol car.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the pizza place where Eric and Dylan worked?

2. Who was Neil Gardner?

3. What happened to Rachel Scott's car?

4. Why did Dave Sanders have seventy one-dollar bills on the night before he was shot?

5. Who was the first of the victims?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was FBI Special Agent Dwayne Fuselier "on edge" the Monday after the prom?

2. How did District Attorney Dave Thomas know who the victims were and what information did he give the parents of those victims that afternoon?

3. What were the plans Dylan and Eric outwardly declared for after graduation and what were their true plans?

4. What were some of the reasons there were rumors of more than two shooters from the eyewitnesses leaving the school in the moments after the shooting began?

5. Describe Mr. DeAngelo's reaction when the students began applauding as he took the podium at the Light of the World Catholic Church.

6. What were Patrick's injuries and how did he get out of the school?

7. What were the options available to the students who rushed from the school as soon as the shooting began and where did most go?

8. What had been Dylan and Eric's previous encounter with the law that made their names appear in the juvenile justice database?

9. What was Wayne Harris' attitude about punishment?

10. Describe the moment when Dylan could have fired on about a hundred kids running up the stairwell but didn't.

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