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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 the name of the woman who imagines having sex with another woman or with many men?

2. According to Friday, what makes a man feel insecure?

3. What are the names of the women who enjoy sexual conversation?

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

5. How does Nancy Friday know that women and men are both aroused by naked bodies?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do experts compare visual arousal by men and women and how does Nancy Friday refute this?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Nancy Friday compare men to women?

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

9. Why do women feel guilty about having fantasies?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Nancy Friday stop from discouraging the reader from exploring unique fantasies? Is she successful? Do you think this is a good method? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What are the 16 rooms of the metaphorical house of fantasy? Give an example of fantasies in three of these rooms and explain what rooms these fantasies fit into and why.

Essay Topic 3

What problem is the author trying to solve? How was the problem presented to her? Is there a clear solution to the problem? Why or why not?

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