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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. Who did the press contact from Deborah's life to try and get more information about Nancy?

2. How did Deborah find out the method of Nancy's murder?

3. Why wasn't Nancy with Sid Vicious on his United States tour?

4. What did Nancy do when her friend Karen called to say her father had passed away?

5. Where did the Spungen family get away for the weekend following Nancy's murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Nancy want to hang around Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols?

2. How did the Sex Pistols become famous?

3. How did the psychiatrist at the Suburban Psychiatric Clinic suggest the Spungens handle Nancy's behavior upon her release?

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

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

6. How did Deborah discover Nancy had been murdered?

7. When the Spungens tried to commit Nancy after her arrest, what difficulties did they encounter? How did Nancy react?

8. What did Nancy do to get off drugs?

9. Why did Nancy's parents want her to move to New York?

10. How did Nancy spend Hanukkah/Christmas before moving to London?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that describes how the Spungens were treated by people after Nancy's murder. In your response, be sure to explain the roles of the police, coroner, district attorney, and the press. How was this treatment a pattern in the Spungens' constant search to do right by their daughter? How have their reactions to this treatment changed since Nancy's birth?

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

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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