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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in room eight?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Transformation.
(c) Animals.
(d) Women.

2. What are the women in room nine excited about?
(a) Younger men.
(b) Fertility.
(c) Women.
(d) Nature.

3. Who does the author say influenced her the most to put ads in publications?
(a) Her publisher.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her mother.

4. What is the name of the woman who was nearly raped by a man she is still acquainted with?
(a) Caroline.
(b) Mary Jo.
(c) Celeste.
(d) Gail.

5. What type of fantasy fits into room three?
(a) Infidelity.
(b) Younger men.
(c) Older men.
(d) Rape.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Marion fantasizes, what does she imagine herself as?

2. What does Karen fantasize about?

3. What is the second reason the author lists for women having fantasies?

4. Why did the author write this book?

5. What is in the final room of the house of fantasy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the room about prostitution empty?

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

3. During sexual activity, how does the importance of the mind compare to the importance of the body?

4. What is an example of frustration?

5. What is the purpose of Chapter 2?

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

7. Why do women fantasize, according to Nancy Friday?

8. Describe Nancy Friday's interaction with her publisher.

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

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

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