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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 negative influence was Nancy introduced to at the second residential school?
2. What school subject frustrated Nancy?
3. Why was Nancy arrested for a second time?
4. What immediate health problems did the Spungens' third child have?
5. What did Nancy give her sister that prompted Deborah to get Nancy help from a New York psychiatrist?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Nancy's relationship like with the Bebees, and how did she react when they were no longer with her?
2. What did David and Suzy reveal to the parents about their own drug use?
3. What did Deborah do for work when David started nursery school?
4. How did Deborah Spungen's grief prompt her to write this book?
5. What was Nancy's final year at Lakeside like?
6. What did the neurologist find when he tested Nancy at her allergist's recommendation?
7. How did the media and press affect Deborah's grief?
8. How did Dr. Cott disappoint Nancy and Deborah?
9. Right before Nancy started school, what did her parents and doctors believe Nancy needed in order to help her behavior? Why were the Spungens so willing to accept this as truth?
10. How did doctors respond to Deborah when she voiced concern over Nancy's medical issues as an infant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In this essay, students will explain how the media treated the Spungens before and after Nancy's death.
1) What inquiries did the media make about Nancy while she was alive?
2) Why were the press interested in Nancy and how did she feel about the media attention?
3) How did the media treat the Spungens after Nancy's death?
4) To what extent did the media go to get ore information about Nancy?
5) How did the Spungens react to the media's attention?
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 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?
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