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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nancy Friday think women should react to their fantasies?
(a) They should accept them and act them out.
(b) They should deny having fantasies.
(c) They should accept them as healthy.
(d) They should keep fantasies to themselves.

2. What does the author warn against?
(a) Acting out fantasies with good friends.
(b) Acting out fantasies with strangers.
(c) Acting out fantasies with people met on the internet.
(d) Acting out a potentially relationship-ending fantasy.

3. To women who accept their fantasies, what do these fantasies become for these women?
(a) Inadequate.
(b) Reluctant.
(c) Complex.
(d) Necessary.

4. Who is Babs worried that her fantasies will affect?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Her health.
(c) Her depression.
(d) Her lover.

5. What are men afraid of because they cannot control them?
(a) Fantasy men.
(b) The reasons for women's fantasies.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Women.

6. Of the women that wrote to Nancy Friday, what did many beg her for?
(a) A way to fight back.
(b) A way to be more open.
(c) Help.
(d) Anonymity.

7. Who does Sophie act out her fantasies with?
(a) Her roommates.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Her girlfriends.
(d) Her classmates.

8. In what way are women similar to men according to Nancy Friday?
(a) They both proposition each other randomly.
(b) They both fantasize about prostitution.
(c) They like to read sexual stories.
(d) They have the same fantasies.

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

10. What do many men feel the need to be in the bedroom, according to the author's research?
(a) Passive.
(b) Submissive.
(c) Controlling.
(d) Genuine.

11. When the author faced women who denied having fantasies, what made them admit they did have them?
(a) They were presented with other women's fantasies.
(b) Nancy Friday offered expert opinions.
(c) Nancy Friday told them about her book.
(d) They talked to men instead of women.

12. What does Nancy Friday say that women are told they should be?
(a) More jealous of their men's fantasies.
(b) Passive in bed.
(c) Dramatic.
(d) Active in bed.

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

14. What does Nancy Friday say is the reason why women don't admit fantasies?
(a) They don't trust Nancy Friday not to tell others about them.
(b) They are scared that their lovers will leave them.
(c) They are scared that their mothers will find out.
(d) They feel guilty.

15. What is the name of the woman who acted out a fantasy only to find herself disappointed in the reality?
(a) Gina.
(b) Sylvia.
(c) Sophie.
(d) Jackie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Nancy Friday discuss in Chapter 6?

2. Which type of man do many women take from mundane situations and put into fantasies?

3. Which of the following contributes to a woman's guilt about her fantasies?

4. According to the author, what gives women the most fantasies?

5. What awakened Sonia to sexual feelings?

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