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

2. Which of the following does Nancy Friday discuss in Chapter 6?
(a) The pros and cons of acting out and sharing fantasies.
(b) The negative letters she received from men.
(c) The guilt women face after acting out their fantasies.
(d) The way men treat women who are sexually confident.

3. What is the focus of Chapter 6?
(a) Denial of fantasies.
(b) Acceptance of sexual fantasies.
(c) The benefits of fantasizing.
(d) The anger men feel toward women.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To women who accept their fantasies, what do these fantasies become for these women?

2. How does the author show that she is like her readers?

3. When the man wrote in to Nancy Friday about his wife's fantasies, what effect did they have on the marriage?

4. According to experts, which of the following is true?

5. What does the author warn against?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nancy Friday think about acting out fantasies?

2. Is Nancy Friday effective in explaining how women get their fantasy ideas from? Why or why not?

3. Describe the role of mundane items, people, and events in fantasies.

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the positive letter Nancy Friday received from a man in Chapter 6.

9. Why do women feel guilty about having fantasies?

10. How does Nancy Friday compare men to women?

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