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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. How did Nancy react when she almost threw a pet down the stairs?

2. Where did Deborah first see her new born daughter?

3. Frank Spungen took business trips to ___________.

4. What medication did Nancy steal from her mother in an attempt to overdose?

5. What did the Spungens name their second daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Dr. Cott disappoint Nancy and Deborah?

2. Why did Deborah feel so bonded to Nancy when she was first born?

3. In what ways did Nancy control the house as a small child?

4. Why did Nancy get angry with her mother when she bought a box of Saran Wrap? What did she do in response?

5. How did the media and press affect Deborah's grief?

6. How did Nancy react when her sister was born?

7. How did Nancy's time at the Lakeside Campus of the Darlington school system change her behavior?

8. Why did the Spungens want Suzy and Nancy to share a room and what happened?

9. What did Deborah do for work when David started nursery school?

10. Describe Nancy's temper tantrums as a toddler and how people handled them differently.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This book is a biography. How would Nancy change her story if she told it? Choose one chapter from the book. Rewrite it as though it were an autobiography. Your response should include all the events, people, and places Deborah describes in the chapter but from Nancy's point of view. Keep in mind Nancy's personality, thoughts about people and places, and how her point of view is different from her mother's.

Essay Topic 2

How were the Spungens let down by the medical community? In your response, be sure to address the following:

1) In what ways did the Spungens reach out to the medical community?

2) How did the medical community respond to the Spungens' call for help?

3) How was Nancy treated by the medical community?

4) Would Nancy's life have been different if the medical community had acted differently?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that examines how Frank and Nancy Spungen were often blamed for Nancy's troubles. In your response, answer the following questions:

1) How did the medical community blame the Spungens? Cite specific examples.

2) How did the school system blame the Spungens? Cite specific examples.

3) How did the legal system, both before and after Nancy's death, blame the Spungens? Cite specific examples.

4) In what ways did the Spungens blame themselves for Nancy's troubles?

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