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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's sister bake for Sid and Nancy?

2. What did a London tabloid newspaper call Nancy?

3. What did Nancy do when her father prevented her from taking their car?

4. Where did Sid and Nancy celebrate her twentieth birthday?

5. What did Deborah suspect was the motive for Sid and Nancy's marriage?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. After spending time with Sid and Nancy in Philadelphia, what did Deborah think of Sid and Nancy's relationship?

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

5. How did Deborah discover Nancy had been murdered?

6. How did the Sex Pistols become famous?

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

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

9. How did the media cover Nancy's death?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that explores the way Frank and Deborah Spungen handled Nancy's escalating behavior. How were Frank and Deborah's approaches to Nancy different in the beginning of her life? What effect did Nancy's behavior have on Frank and Deborah's relationship? How were Frank and Deborah treated by those from whom they sought help? How did this treatment continue even in Nancy's death?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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