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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chapter 5 focus on?
(a) Guilt that many women have.
(b) Details about the house of fantasy.
(c) Who women fantasize about.
(d) Why women fantasize.

2. What does Nancy Friday confess to?
(a) Having fantasies about women.
(b) Forgetting her first sexual experience.
(c) Watching men's trousers.
(d) Examining women's breasts.

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

4. 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 mothers will find out.
(c) They are scared that their lovers will leave them.
(d) They feel guilty.

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

6. What is the name of the woman who doesn't think there's a difference between men looking at women sexually on the streets and women doing it to men?
(a) Deana.
(b) Aimee.
(c) Gemma.
(d) Barbara.

7. What did some women who wrote to Nancy Friday express disbelief about?
(a) That women would deny fantasies.
(b) That women would have fantasies.
(c) That women would want to act out their fantasies.
(d) That men would feel insecure about fantasies.

8. How does the author show that she is like her readers?
(a) She shares her own fantasies.
(b) She identifies with the men.
(c) She says that experts are wrong.
(d) She leaves out details that might make the reader uncomfortable.

9. Which fantasies are often the most exciting ones?
(a) The ones involving romance.
(b) The first ones.
(c) The most recent ones.
(d) The ones involving younger men.

10. 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.

11. What are women often told that they are, according to the author?
(a) Angry and jealous.
(b) Quiet lovers.
(c) Physically active in bed.
(d) The weaker sex.

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

13. What does Christiana fantasize about?
(a) Reading sexy books.
(b) Changing sexual positions.
(c) Watching her husband have sex with another woman.
(d) Leaving her husband.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author faced women who denied having fantasies, what made them admit they did have them?

2. According to Nancy Friday, what do women enjoy reading about?

3. What does Hanna collect photos of?

4. What is Nancy Friday's overall message?

5. What did Nancy Friday hope would end her own guilt?

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