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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 Misty's job before she'd quit to be a full-time mom?
2. What advice did Brad and Misty get when they discovered the letters in Cassie's room that spoke of sex and violence?
3. What was Zack Heckler's nickname?
4. What color was the van Dylan and Eric broke into in order to steal the electronics?
5. Which of the following did the author say was one of the raging questions plaguing the public?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What was the message Brian Rohrbough crafted for the memorial, what did officials ask him to do, and why did he win the argument?
3. Why did the kids begin referring to the "Columbine Curse?"
4. What was the problem Misty Bernall and her publisher faced with regard to Misty's book about Cassie's death and what were her decision?
5. What were the main points of the "how-to guides" issued by the government in the years following Columbine?
6. What were Dylan's beliefs about God and what did he believe God was doing to him personally?
7. What was Mr. DeAngelo's life like in the years after the shooting?
8. What were the messages from Dylan and Eric about their parents on the final edition of the Basement Tapes?
9. What did Patrick come to realize about architecture school and why? What were his alternate plans?
10. What did Misty Bernall answer when Oprah asked if she wished Cassie had denied her Christianity in the hope that she might not be killed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
What was the popular myth circulated about Cassie Bernall's death? What was the truth? Why did the churches continue to tell the myth as fact? What were the reactions of her parents both to the myth and to the truth?
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