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Question 1 of 10

Question 1. The student is quoting Christina Hoff Sommers from page 17 of the following book: Winegarner, Beth. The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the Crossfire. Lulu Press, 2013.

A. In the wake of Columbine, according to Christina Hoff Sommers, “It has become fashionable to attribute pathology to millions of healthy male children” (qtd. in Winegarner 17).

B. In the wake of Columbine, according to Christina Hoff Sommers, “It has become fashionable to attribute pathology to millions of healthy male children” (17).

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Question 2 of 10

Question 2. The student is citing a blog post that appeared on the Psychology Today Web site: Ramsland, Katherine. “Mass Murder Motives.” Psychology Today, 20 July 2012, www.psychologytoday.com/blog/shadow-boxing/201207/mass-murder-motives.

A. Katherine Ramsland describes motives for mass murder that “rang[e] from revenge to despair to free-floating rage at the world” (“Mass Murder”).

B. Katherine Ramsland describes motives for mass murder that “rang[e] from revenge to despair to free-floating rage at the world.”

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Question 3 of 10

Question 3. The student is quoting from page 472 of a scholarly article by Dianne T. Gereluk, Kent Donlevy, and Merlin B. Thompson.

A. Gereluk, Donlevy, and Thompson have called the teacher’s threat assessment role “onerous” and have expressed concern about the “tremendous burden of watching for potential threats” in and out of the classroom (472).

B. Gereluk et al. have called the teacher’s threat assessment role “onerous” and have expressed concern about the “tremendous burden of watching for potential threats” in and out of the classroom (472).

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Question 4 of 10

Question 4. The student is using statistics from the following article: Follman, Mark. “Trigger Warnings.” Mother Jones, Nov./Dec. 2015, pp. 22-29.

A. In the seventy-two known Columbine copycat cases, 53% of the planned attacks involved guns, and 18% involved bombs or explosives (Follman 27).

B. In the seventy-two known Columbine copycat cases, 53% of the planned attacks involved guns, and 18% involved bombs or explosives.

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Question 5 of 10

Question 5. The student is summarizing information gathered from a map found in this source: Mosendz, Polly. “Map: Every School Shooting in America since 2013.” Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2015, www.newsweek.com/list-school-shootings-america-2013-380535.

A. An analysis of the map reveals that there is no regional concentration in the occurrence of school shootings. They happen everywhere in America (“Map”).

B. An analysis of the map reveals that there is no regional concentration in the occurrence of school shootings. They happen everywhere in America (Mosendz).

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Question 6 of 10

Question 6. The student is quoting from this online video: Gladwell, Malcolm. “Malcolm Gladwell Discusses School Shootings.” YouTube, 5 Oct. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=27aWHudLmgs.

A. Gladwell’s assessment of the recent history of school shootings is eye-opening: “It’s an overwhelmingly American phenomenon,” he says.

B. Gladwell’s assessment of the recent history of school shootings is eye-opening: It’s an overwhelmingly American phenomenon, he says.

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Question 7 of 10

Question 7. The student is summarizing the following unsigned source: “Another Day, Another Tragic School Shooting.” The Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/another-day-another-tragic-school-shooting/2015/10/09/62f5077c-6eb5-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html. Editorial.

A. Mental health treatment and peer counseling are good first steps to reducing school violence; restricting access to guns, however, is the most important step (Editorial).

B. Mental health treatment and peer counseling are good first steps to reducing school violence; restricting access to guns, however, is the most important step (“Another”).

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Question 8 of 10

Question 8. The student is quoting from page 45 of the following source: Klein, Jessie. The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America’s Schools. New York UP, 2013. The list of works cited includes two works by Klein.

A. Klein, a sociology professor, raises the idea that “boys are pressured to behave in a host of essentially superhuman or nonhuman ways” (Bully 45).

B. Klein, a sociology professor, raises the idea that “boys are pressured to behave in a host of essentially superhuman or nonhuman ways” (45).

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Question 9 of 10

Question 9. The student is paraphrasing from this short work from a Web site: “Effects of Bullying.” StopBullying.gov, US Department of Health and Human Services, www.stopbullying.gov/at-risk/effects/. Accessed 5 Apr. 2016.

A. Violence against others can be a response to being chronically bullied. There is evidence that many school shooters and mass shooters have experienced bullying (US Dept. of Health and Human Services).

B. Violence against others can be a response to being chronically bullied. There is evidence that many school shooters and mass shooters have experienced bullying (“Effects”).

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Question 10 of 10

Question 10. The student quotes from a blog post: Brucculieri, Julia, and Cole Delbyck. “These Classic TV Episodes about School Shootings Are More Relevant Than Ever.” The Huffington Post, 24 Jan. 2016, www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/school-shootings-on-tv_us_56a14986e4b076aadcc5c94b?utm_hp_ref=school-shooting.

A. Huffington Post entertainment bloggers posted that a 2013 episode of Glee led some viewers to “[draw] connections between autism and Newtown, Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza” and the show’s Becky character (Brucculieri and Delbyck).

B. Huffington Post entertainment bloggers posted that a 2013 episode of Glee led some viewers to “[draw] connections between autism and Newtown, Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza” and the show’s Becky character (Brucculieri).

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