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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 condition made Nancy unable to have children?

2. Who called Deborah on Sid's behalf after Nancy was murdered?

3. Who forced their way into the Spungens home and left a newspaper on the floor?

4. Who took Nancy to the hospital when she overdosed on heroin?

5. How was Nancy murdered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Nancy do to get off drugs?

2. How did the Sex Pistols become famous?

3. What did Nancy reveal to her mother during their last phone conversation?

4. How was the Spungen family adjusting to life while Nancy was living in London?

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

6. How did Deborah describe Nancy when she saw her on TV as part of a Sex Pistols concert?

7. How did Deborah feel when she found out about Sid's death?

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

9. How did the Spungens become involved with the Parents of Murdered Children group?

10. How were Sid and Nancy behaving when Frank delivered their belongings from London?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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