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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 Chapter 6?

2. What might stop a woman from acting out fantasies in reality, according to the author?

3. What might lead a woman to becoming more repressed?

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

5. What do men not like the idea of, according to Friday?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Many women wrote to Nancy Friday and begged for anonymity. What does this tell the reader about these women and society?

3. How does Nancy Friday compare men to women?

4. Why do women feel guilty about having fantasies?

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

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

7. What is the overall theme of the book?

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

9. When women do not have guilt about their fantasies, what do they often do?

10. Why do many women avoid acting out their fantasies in reality?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do men react to the idea of women having fantasies, according to Nancy Friday? Do you agree with her? What evidence convinces you of this?

Essay Topic 2

What is the purpose of the final chapter in the story? Why do you think these stories were put at the end? What insight are these stories lacking?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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