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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 do experts believe does not arouse women?
(a) Hearing sexual audio.
(b) Female genitalia.
(c) Male genitalia.
(d) Reading erotic material.

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

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

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

5. What is the name of the woman who feels her fantasy is so perfect that the book cannot be published without it?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Gina.
(c) Gloria.
(d) Paula.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are women often told that they are, according to the author?

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

3. What is the name of the woman who acted out a fantasy only to find herself disappointed in the reality?

4. According to Nancy Friday, which of the following often leads to fantasies from childhood?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the letter a man wrote to Nancy Friday about his wife.

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

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

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

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

6. Which fantasies stay the most exciting, according to the author?

7. Why do women feel guilty about having fantasies?

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

9. Where does Nancy Friday say that many women get their fantasies?

10. How does Nancy Friday compare men to women?

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