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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. How did Deborah's doctors react to her concerns about Nancy when she was born?

2. Why didn't the police arrest Nancy for drunk driving?

3. What did the pediatrician prescribe for Nancy's inability to sleep?

4. What did Nancy give her sister that prompted Deborah to get Nancy help from a New York psychiatrist?

5. What was the name of the elderly couple that watched Nancy in the residential facility?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Nancy took the medication Atarax?

2. Why was Nancy arrested in Colorado, and how did her parents rescue her?

3. What did Nancy declare to her parents in Chapter 12 about her death?

4. What did David and Suzy reveal to the parents about their own drug use?

5. How did Deborah Spungen's grief prompt her to write this book?

6. Why was Deborah upset with Nancy's treatment at the Lakeside Campus?

7. How did Deborah's mother feel about her pregnancy with Nancy?

8. What medical issues did Nancy face when she was first born?

9. Where was Nancy placed after she attacked her mother with a hammer, and how did the Spungens feel about her placement?

10. How did Dr. Cott disappoint Nancy and Deborah?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that explores the Spungens' involvement with the Parents of Murdered Children group. In your essay, be sure to answer the following questions:

1) How did the POMC help Frank and Deborah grieve?

2) Why did Deborah want to help other families?

3) How did the POMC support families of murdered children?

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of the title of this book? In your essay, explain how Deborah got to know the line, "And I don't want to live this life." What does this quote mean? How is it significant to the life story of Nancy Spungen? Who said it? Why was it important to Deborah? Provide textual evidence from the book that supports this as an appropriate title for Nancy's life story.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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