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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. When Nancy returned to school after the elderly couple was gone, how did Nancy react?

2. What behavior did Nancy display after the Spungens moved into their first home?

3. Why did Nancy have to leave college after just a few months?

4. How did Nancy treat her baby sister when she was first born?

5. How old was Nancy when she was misplaced in the psychiatric hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Nancy do in New York to defy her parents, and how did they react?

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

3. What medical issues did Nancy face when she was first born?

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

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

6. Why was Deborah upset with Nancy's treatment at the Lakeside Campus?

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

8. How did Nancy's relationship with Jeff improve her behavior?

9. What did Dr. Blake's evaluation of Nancy say was the root of her problems? How did this make the Spungens feel?

10. What was the Darlington Institute?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that explores the relationship between Deborah Spungen and her daughter Nancy. How did Nancy's early medical history bond mother and daughter? Why did Deborah feel responsible for Nancy's issues? In what ways did Deborah support her daughter? Did Deborah enable Nancy's destructive behavior? What was their relationship like toward the end of Nancy's life? How did Nancy continue to confide in her mother? What responsibilities did Deborah feel towards her daughter?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that examines Sid's and Nancy's relationship. How did their relationship change from when they first met until Nancy's death? How did they treat each other? Why did Nancy stay in the relationship after it became abusive? What role did drugs play in their relationship? What attracted Nancy to Sid and vice-versa?

Essay Topic 3

Students will examine Nancy Spungen's relationship with drugs. In your response, be sure to address the following points:

1) Nancy's early experience with drugs prescribed by doctors, even in her infancy.

2) Deborah's dependency on the medical community and drugs to alleviate Nancy's problem.

3) Nancy's and Sid's drug dependencies.

4) The role drugs played in the music scene that Nancy admired.

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