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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is room five categorized as?

2. Which of the following did the author promise to the women who shared with her?

3. What is room four about?

4. According to her publisher, what should the author have focused on in her novel?

5. How many rooms are in the house that Nancy Friday uses as a metaphor for fantasy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What made the author begin to question her fantasies?

2. Describe the role of exploration in fantasizing.

3. What type of fantasy is more common in men than in women?

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

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

6. Why is the room about prostitution empty?

7. How did Nancy Friday begin bringing up the topic of fantasies and what did she find?

8. What does the author credit as the new attitude toward sex?

9. What is an example of frustration?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the parallels between the fantasies women wrote and the author's personal life? How do these parallels affect the reader? how does this level of contact with the author contribute to the mood and tone of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one quote from the book that sums up the overall theme. Explain how this is true. Then, choose another quote that conveys Friday's overall message and explain how this is true.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the process in which the author obtained data for her experiment. How did the author react to obtaining the information?

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