Introduction (p. ix-xii)
1. Which statement does Dawn (the author) make in her introduction?
a. All the sex I ever had -- in and out of relationships -- never
brought me
any closer to marriage or even being able to sustain a
committed
relationship. By viewing sex as a means to an end rather than
the fruit
of a loving relationship, I rendered myself incapable of
having a loving
relationship.
b. The fruit of casual sex is the persistent habit of objectifying sexual
partners to the point of being unable to perceive people
except in
terms of how they relate to one’s own wants and desires…Sex
before
marriage relies on faith that a man who has not shown faith
in you --
that is, enough faith to commit himself to you for life --
will come
around through the persuasive force of your physical
affection…
A man who is attracted to you will eventually learn who you
really are --
but by then, if all goes according to the rules, your hooks
will be
in too deep for him to escape.
c. Chastity relies on faith that God, as you pursue a closer walk with
Him, will lead you to a loving husband. Chastity opens up
your world,
enabling you to achieve your creative and spiritual potential
without
the pressure of having to play the dating game. Your husband
will
have you for yourself -- your heart, mind, body, and soul.
d. All of the above.
Chapter One: Not the Same Old Song (p. 1-9)
In a vicious cycle,
single women feel lonely because they are not loved,
so they have casual
sex with men who do not love them. -- p. 2
2. What made Dawn say “No” to Steve’s invitation to spend the night?
a. She envisioned having breakfast with him the next morning. She
contrasted how much more choosy and specific she was about
what
she ordered for breakfast than with the man she would want to
share
every breakfast with the rest of her life.
b. Still thinking about the next morning, she reasoned that even if they
fell
in love with each other afterwards, it still didn’t change
the fact that the
night before they would have used one another if they slept
together.
And she didn’t think that having sex to fall in love would be
a good
recipe for a lasting marriage.
c. Still thinking about the next morning, she reasoned that even if she
didn’t fall in love with Steve, she would feel an attachment
to him if
they had sex. That sense of attachment would make the
separation
after breakfast that much harder.
d. All of the above.
Chapter Two: Sex and the Witty -- Getting a Rise Out of Chastity
(p. 11-19)
3. What did Dawn mean when she said that “the best sex I ever had was with a
man who didn’t love me”?
a. The man was a great lover in terms of sexual technique.
b. The man was very gentle, kind, and a great listener.
c. She was having sex with her fantasy of him. The sheer shock of being
physical with a man who had acted so distant made her imagine
an
emotional intimacy that really wasn’t there.
d. She was thinking of another man while she was having sex with this one.
Chapter Three: Becoming a Singular Sensation (p. 21-29)
4. Dawn quotes Psalm 107:36 “There He makes the hungry dwell” and Matthew
5:6 “those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.” How does she explain
this “hunger”?
a. It’s possible to get most of your needs met.
b. Our hunger for sex is just like our hunger for food.
c. Accept that you will never be fully satisfied on this earth. Use your
longings to become aware of how dependent you are upon God
for
everything.
d. The love between a husband and a wife is best described as a mutual
effort to please or satisfy one another.
Chapter Four: The Agony and the Ecstasy -- Countering the Culture (p.
31-39)
5. Dawn states that choosing to live a chaste (sexually abstinent) life
puts her in conflict with a culture that “relentlessly puts forth the idea
that lust is a way station on the road to love.” The struggle to remain
chaste can be a long, drawn-out ordeal as indicated by the New Testament’s
use of the word “conflict”, translated from the Greek word
“agon”, which means “agony”. What did the author say was the MOST
challenging part of chastity?
a. overcoming temptation.
b. gaining spiritual resources to joyfully face day-to-day life as a
cultural
outsider.
c. becoming convinced that having premarital sex actually makes her less
likely to gain a good husband.
d. finding a man who will love her for her weaknesses, insecurities, and
shortcomings.
Chapter Five: The First Cut is the Deepest (p. 41-50)
6. Why does Dawn describe her kissing sessions with Travis as “the absolute
worst thing I could possibly do to my soul?”
a. because the kissing often led to more intimate physical touching.
b. because she learned to detach the physical actions of sex from its
emotional consequences.
c. because Travis was twice her age and made her feel used.
d. because Travis boasted to others about his kissing sessions with a
virgin.
You lose your innocence
when you learn to detach. You detach in order to
protect yourself. You protect yourself, and sex
goes from being a shared,
outer-directed experience of love to an insular,
narcissistic experience of
insecurity. The answer is to stop protecting
yourself, and the only way to do
that is to take yourself out of situations where
you have to protect yourself.
To truly connect with someone, you must allow
yourself to be vulnerable.
You can’t be vulnerable if you’re always having
to ask yourself whether the
man you desire will be there to catch you when
you fall. I know that I will
never regain my innocence. But I can
regain my vulnerability. -- p. 50
Chapter Six: Why It’s Easy to Blame Mom and Dad (and Why You Shouldn’t)
(p. 51-61)
7. Dawn’s parents separated when she was 5 years old and divorced
when she was six. When she was seven, her Dad remarried and Dawn
saw him only on weekends. When she was in the fourth grade, her father took
a job across country and she then saw him only one or two weeks
of the year. Dawn believes that her fear that boyfriends would leave her was
similar to her fear that her father would lose interest in her if she
failed to win his affection. She actually learned to anticipate boyfriends
leaving her so it would be less painful. However, Dawn says that three years
before she became a Christian, “I have no doubt that my real
journey to faith and chastity was jump-started by the healing of my
relationship with my father.” What healing took place between Dawn
and her father?
a. Dawn’s step-mother helped her father learn to accept Dawn for who
she was beyond her accomplishments.
b. Dawn’s father went to her mother and apologized for all the ways he
had contributed to the failure of their marriage.
c. Dawn’s father apologized to Dawn for not showing more interest in her
as a child, such as attending her school recitals.
d. Dawn’s father apologized for not having talked to her during her
teenage years about the importance of chastity.
Chapter Seven: The Meaning of Sex (p. 63-71)
8. The “theology of the body” says that
a. our bodies have the high purpose of communicating God’s love to
others.
b. our souls are more important communicators of God’s love than our
bodies.
c. I would be lying if I am having sex with someone to whom I am not
married because my body would be saying, “I give myself to
you freely,
totally, faithfully and fruitfully” but I haven’t committed
myself totally to
that person.
d. both A. and C.
Each time I said “Yes” to sex outside
marriage, I had been also saying “No”
to the friendship of God. More than
that, I was denying my partner friendship
with God, by enabling him to act in a
way that went against God’s will for him.
-- p. 78
Chapter Eight: Saying Yes Like You Mean It (p. 73-81)
9. What does the author mean by saying “Yes” like you mean it?
a. saying “Yes” to God’s will for your life (and saying “No” to
thoughts,
words, and actions that separate you from Him).
b. developing qualities such as confidence, patience, and self-control.
c. having integrity and honesty when dealing with others.
d. cultivating a thought-life that is predominantly positive, not negative.
Chapter Nine: Tender Mercies -- Reconnecting with Your Vulnerability (p.
83-90)
10. Which is NOT true?
a. When a single woman who wants to get married continues having
dead-end sexual relationships, she is not trying to let men
inside.
She’s trying to shut them out. As she hungers for intimacy
but fears
rejection, it’s much easier to let a man touch her body than
to let him
touch her heart.
b. It’s possible to achieve the fantasy of casual sex with no apparent
emotional consequences. You won’t get hurt as long as you
adopt
a hard shell.
c. The same armor that enables a woman to tolerate casual sex makes
her less attractive to the kind of man she would like to
marry. As she
becomes used to viewing herself and her male partners as
objects,
she becomes unable to give of herself emotionally, and she
ends up
pushing away men of character who want more than just casual
sex.
d. Women who have sex outside of marriage appreciate men for who they
really are -- their thoughtfulness, their love of family,
their integrity, even
their vulnerability.
Chapter Ten: The Iniquity of My Heels -- A Sole in Danger (p. 91-100)
11. Dawn’s fear of rejection appeared in a reoccurring dream as an imaginary
lover, a man who disappeared no matter how tightly she held onto him. What
did she do to finally make this disturbing dream go away?
a. She confessed all of her premarital sexual experiences to God.
b. She ordered the man away before he could disappear.
c. She stopped dating.
d. She ended a relationship just to prove to herself that she could endure
the loss of someone she cared for.
Chapter Eleven: Up Close and Personal (p. 101-111)
12. Dawn believes which of the following is TRUE?
a. For anyone wanting to get married, there are many potential spouses.
b. When a single woman walks into a room at a social event, she should
talk primarily with only the men she is most attracted to.
c. The consumer tools that our culture claims empowers single women
actually keep them single -- by encouraging women and
men to view
one another as commodities rather human beings.
d. Use a matchmaking service as an effective way to find a lifelong spouse.
Chapter Twelve: Start Me Up -- How Beginnings Shape Endings
(p. 113-121)
13. The author believes I starting every dating relationship as though it
was going to resolve into marriage. Why does she do this?
a. because she is pursuing a husband as if she is on a hunt.
b. because she wants her first date with a man to be perfect and “slipless”.
c. because she doesn’t want to do anything at the beginning of a
relationship that she would later regret, including
dishonesty, disrespect,
playing games, or a lack of sexual restraint.
d. because she wants to first engage in physical intimacy to see if it will
turn into emotional intimacy.
In 1973, during the height of the sexual revolution, Erica Jong wrote
the
semiautobiographical, best-selling book, Fear of Flying, in which
she
popularized
the notion of “zipless” sex, where the heroine dreams of having
sex with
strangers in such a natural, flowing manner that she doesn’t even
notice the
intruding sound of a zipper. As of 2006, Erica Jong has been
married four
times. -- p. 115, 116
Chapter Thirteen: Life Beyond the “Meet” Market (p. 123-132)
14. What is the greatest message the author wants her female readers
to receive from this book?
a. In relationships, a man likes to do the hunting. He soon loses
interest in
a woman who pursues him. He wants to feel as though the woman
he is
pursuing is a valuable prize and that winning her will bring
him a sense of
accomplishment.
b. Through chastity -- and only through chastity -- can all the graces that
are part of being a woman come to full flower in you.
c. God puts the longing for a husband in one’s heart for a reason and it’s
meant to be fulfilled. But there’s a difference between
having that longing
and making an obsession out of it.
d. Men don’t like to feel used. They don’t like to feel that a woman is
interested in them only because she hears her biological
clock ticking or
because she’s desperately lonely or because she has no life
outside
watching TV and getting drunk on the weekends. Like attracts
like.
If you want a man who has strong values -- one who’s deep,
wise, and
trustworthy -- you have to demonstrate strong values
yourself. They
have to be obvious in your every word, every action, every
breath.
15. What happens when a girlfriend “mothers” her boyfriend?
a. The boyfriend will have great admiration for his girlfriend.
b. The boyfriend will be inspired to give back to her as much as she gives
to him.
c. The boyfriend will, out of gratefulness, suggest that they keep better
sexual boundaries.
d. The boyfriend will feel adored but not appreciated or needed for anything
he can do for her, and he will eventually lose interest.
Chapter Fourteen: Join the Club! (p. 133-145)
16. Which is the LEAST LIKELY scenario for meeting a man with a good
character, one who is modest, sensitive, and deep?
a. Going out with a bunch of girlfriends where at least one of them is
very
attractive.
b. Joining a book club or a reading club.
c. Joining a sports club like running or cycling.
d. A church-sponsored social group that focuses on faith and fellowship
instead of alcohol, parties, and bars.
Wearing modest clothes is tantalizing
to a good man. It tells him that you
value your body enough not to display
too much of it. -- p. 153
Chapter Fifteen: Clothes Encounter (p. 147-155)
17. After Dawn set chastity as a goal for her behavior, what helped her to
begin dressing in a chaste manner rather than still showing off her body in
sexy clothes?
a. Someone pointed out the hypocrisy of behaving chaste in her unchaste
clothes.
b. She began treating chastity as a vocation where one dressed to reveal
her natural grace without exploiting her body.
c. She stopped wearing fashionable clothing.
d. She started wearing more loose clothing that didn’t fit her very well.
Chapter Sixteen: Crush and Burn -- Dealing with Temptation
(p. 157-166)
18. Which is NOT true about a single woman resisting sexual temptation?
a. A woman committed to chastity should pull out of sexual temptation
even at the risk of being called a tease.
b. An effective phrase is, “I’m saving myself for my husband.”
c. Masturbation is an acceptable alternative to not having sex outside of
marriage.
d. A woman who says No to sex outside marriage is usually rewarded
with peace of mind.
Chapter Seventeen: Heavy Mettle -- Mending the Chinks in Your Spiritual
Armor (p. 167-175)
19. How did Dawn finally overcome her obsession with Ian?
a. She stopped talking to him.
b. She temporarily stopped dating altogether so she could renew her
sensibilities.
c. She started dating someone else so she could take her mind off Ian.
d. She prayed daily for God to cover her with spiritual armor and asked
close friends and family members for her.
20. How does Dawn pray for a husband?
a. She prays day and night that God will send her a husband.
b. She prays that he would be an empathetic listener, a good provider,
and a wise man.
c. She doesn’t pray for a future husband because she doesn’t want to
think that every time she dates a man that “It might be him.”
d. She prays that God would make her ready for marriage, to send her her
husband when she is ready, and to grant her patience in the
meantime.
Chapter Eighteen: Why Shared Values Matter (p. 177-187)
21. A man and a woman can be in love only if
a. they have passion for one another.
b. they like to do things for each other.
c. they each love what is in the other.
d. they have a lot of common interests.
22. Dawn stopped dating Tom because
a. he was not an honest person.
b. he denied that God had anything to do with alleviating her depression.
c. he pressured her to have premarital sex.
d. he wouldn’t do volunteer work.
Chapter Nineteen: Seeing Is Believing -- Holding on to Your Vision
(p. 189-198)
23. Who said that putting faith in action was like a child on the 3rd
floor
of a burning building who chooses to jump down into the open arms of
a strong man?
a. Pastor David Ireland
b. Sister Gerry
c. Joni Eareckson Tada
d. C.S. Lewis
It is the fear of disappointment that
disappoints. The happiest, most fulfilled
people are those who have overcome
this fear. -- p 195
24. When we realize our complete dependence on God for all things, He
gives us a sure sign that our will is aligned with His will. What is that
sign?
a. Our showing gratitude to God no matter what our circumstances.
b. Our having material success.
c. Our gaining favor with other people.
d. Our experiencing a significant decrease in uncertainty.
Chapter Twenty: From Willpower to Thrill Power (p. 199-207)
25. This final chapter is about
a. the gift of wonder -- being thankful for the blessings of God because
we don’t deserve them.
b. the hardship of self-control.
c. sublimation -- redirecting the pent-up energy of sexual repression into
worthy causes.
d. how every single woman deserves a husband.
