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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 Cassie reading in the moments before her death?
2. What color was the van Dylan and Eric broke into in order to steal the electronics?
3. What happened to break up the friendship between Zack, Dylan and Eric?
4. Why was Dylan making D's in school and showing no interest?
5. What did Dylan write about in his diary almost exclusively up to the final week before the shootings?
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 was the challenge Patrick faced during his rehabilitation period with regard to speech and what happened when he was given a pen and paper?
3. Why did the Jefco Sheriff say it took so long for police to get into the building and bring the victims out?
4. What did Fuselier say about the dyad?
5. 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?
6. What did Patrick come to realize about architecture school and why? What were his alternate plans?
7. 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?
8. 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?
9. What did some students believe to be a major problem with the way Mr. DeAngelo ran the school?
10. What were the main points of the "how-to guides" issued by the government in the years following Columbine?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Dylan and Eric. How were the two similar? How were they different? Include information about their backgrounds, likes, dislikes and the reason they played well as a dyad.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the Basement Tapes, their contents, and their effect on the investigation. What did investigators learn from those tapes?
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