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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 is the house in Friday's metaphor similar to?

2. When Marion fantasizes, who does she imagine raping?

3. What type of tone does the author try to avoid?

4. When Nancy Friday began questioning women about fantasies, what was the initial consensus?

5. How did the author react to the number of responses she obtained?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does Nancy Friday believe that sexual initiative plays in fantasizing?

2. Describe Nancy Friday's use of the metaphor of a house to represent women's fantasies.

3. How does the concept of approval tie in to fantasies?

4. Describe why women may fantasize about being with other women, according to Nancy Friday.

5. Describe how Nancy Friday achieves the tone for this book.

6. What is Nancy Friday's goal in showing how women have fantasies in different themes?

7. According to the author, how has she been restrained sexually?

8. Describe one of the fantasies mentioned in the story.

9. How did women feel to be able to write in their fantasies to Friday?

10. Describe rooms seven through eleven of the house of fantasy.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think Nancy Friday's commitment to her research is? Can you tell that she is committed to the research? Why or why not? What evidence suggests this?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the book critically. Did the author's research make sense? Was it scientific? Did the author have a bias in writing the book? How do you think this is related to the content of the book? Does this make it any more or less good?

Essay Topic 3

What problem is the author trying to solve? How was the problem presented to her? Is there a clear solution to the problem? Why or why not?

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