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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author believe that women should embrace fantasies?
(a) By sharing them with friends.
(b) However they choose.
(c) By writing about them.
(d) By participating in them.

2. When a man finds out that a woman fantasizes, what is the first thing he might do?
(a) Deny it.
(b) Fear that his relationship is ending.
(c) Become obsessed with the idea.
(d) Become jealous.

3. What did Nancy Friday hope would end her own guilt?
(a) Writing the book.
(b) Reaching out to men about fantasies.
(c) Reading other women's fantasies.
(d) Researching sexuality.

4. How does Nancy Friday know that women and men are both aroused by naked bodies?
(a) Personal experience.
(b) Books she has read.
(c) Scientific experiments.
(d) Magazine articles.

5. What awakened Sonia to sexual feelings?
(a) Vibrations in the car.
(b) Being molested as a child.
(c) Spending time with male family members.
(d) Vibrations from a children's toy.

6. What does Hanna collect photos of?
(a) Her real lovers.
(b) Fantasy men.
(c) Fantasy settings.
(d) Fantasy women.

7. When do many women begin fantasizing?
(a) When they are babies.
(b) When they are young children.
(c) When they are teenagers.
(d) When they are already sexually active.

8. In Chapter 5, what is one of the reasons Nancy Friday gives for writing the book?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Guilt.

9. For women who act out their fantasies, what do they possess?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Good lovers.
(d) Anger.

10. What did women fear about writing to Nancy Friday?
(a) Others would steal their fantasies.
(b) Women would stop fantasizing.
(c) People would recognize their names.
(d) Women's sexuality would become out of control.

11. What is Nancy Friday's overall message?
(a) That all women fantasize.
(b) That men are oppressive to women.
(c) That women need to begin acting out their fantasies.
(d) That women and men are different.

12. What is the second thing a man might do upon learning that the woman he is with fantasizes?
(a) He shames her.
(b) He feels violated.
(c) He wants to act out the fantasies right away.
(d) He becomes angry or insecure.

13. According to Nancy Friday, which of the following often leads to fantasies from childhood?
(a) Being potty trained.
(b) Having a diaper changed.
(c) Spanking.
(d) Breastfeeding.

14. Which of the following contributes to a woman's guilt about her fantasies?
(a) The atmosphere.
(b) The location.
(c) The dialogue.
(d) Her lover.

15. What does Miranda often dream of?
(a) Animals.
(b) Her family members.
(c) Greek gods.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Babs worried that her fantasies will affect?

2. What did some women who wrote to Nancy Friday express disbelief about?

3. According to Friday, what makes a man feel insecure?

4. What led to sexual excitement for Mona?

5. What did the man who wrote to the author sign his name as?

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