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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 did Nancy remind her parents of as they drove her and Sid to the train station?

2. How did Sid communicate with Deborah after Nancy died?

3. What did the police discover in Sid's and Nancy's hotel room?

4. What was the name of the Sex Pistols' first album?

5. Whom did the police arrest for Nancy's murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the Spungens treated by the coroner handling Nancy case?

2. What happened to Nancy's first job?

3. What did the Sex Pistols do during concerts that made them so sensational?

4. Describe the scene at Sid Vicious' bail hearing.

5. How did the POMC help Frank and Deborah come to terms with Nancy's death?

6. How did Deborah describe Sid when she first met him?

7. What happened to Sid's career after the Sex Pistols had broken up?

8. How did the media treat Nancy as the Sex Pistols gained more fame?

9. How did the judge in Nancy's driving case treat Deborah?

10. Why did Nancy have to leave the Suburban Psychiatric Clinic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Nancy's behavior affect her family? In your response, explain the following:

1) Nancy's relationship with her parents (separately and together)

2) Influences and relationship with her siblings

3) Expense of treatments, special schools, etc

4) Ways that Nancy's behavior prevented the family from living a "normal" life.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Nancy's experiences in school. In your essay, be sure to address the following:

1) All the schools Nancy attended and the affect they had on her behavior

2) How school administrators treated Nancy's behavior

3) Life in college

4) Nancy's high intelligence and how she felt about school

5) Ways that Nancy educated herself.

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