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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jacqueline fantasize about?

3. What causes fantasies to grow?

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

5. What led to sexual excitement for Mona?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the goal of Chapter 6?

2. Why are men threatened by the idea of a woman's fantasy?

3. What does the author compare crotch watching to?

4. When a man cannot control the fact that a woman fantasizes, what happens, according to the author?

5. What effects might sharing or acting out fantasies have on a relationship?

6. How does the theme of sexual equality play into Nancy Friday's chapter about guilt?

7. What role have women been assigned, according to Nancy Friday?

8. Describe the situation that both Sophie and Paula face.

9. What does the author suggest that women should do with their fantasies?

10. How does the author dispel expert opinion in Chapter 4?

(see the answer keys)

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