Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?

Jan Gay's house

The Palace

San Francisco

The mental hospital
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?

Emma Goldman

Zhenya

Nadia

Juan
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?

The mental institution

The Sex Variants study

Through friends

A gay bar
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?

Robert Browning

Petrarch

Robert Lowell

Homer
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?

1950

1962

2000

1974
6 What "syndrome" was Juan brought to the mental hospital for?

Depression

Puerto Rican Syndrome

Munchausen Syndrome

Homosexuality
7 What is the name of the form when you ink out parts of an existing text?

Blackout or erasure poetry

Plagiarism

Experimental prose

Sonnet
8 What structures the present day action of the novel?

A conversation

A romance

A memory of a single day

A wedding
9 What does nene do when Juan's body is taken out of the hospital?

Leave in the opposite direction

Sit down and start writing the book

Follow him out weeping

Look at his books
10 Which test does nene make a blackout poem from?

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Citizenship Test

The Mental Wellness Test

The Eye Exam
11 Where does nene go after Juan dies?

Back east through the desert

France

Home to San Francisco

West to Los Angeles
12 Who was Jan Gay's first crush?

Emma Goldman

The researcher she co-authored with

Her teacher

Juan
13 How long did Juan and nene know each other earlier in their lives?

Three months

1 day

Five years

18 days
14 What kind of doctor was Jan Gay's father?

Optometrist

Family Doctor

Gynecologist

Psychologist
15 What did Jan need in order to publish her research?

A strong thesis

The endorsement of a male doctor

Money

A dozen more participants
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?

Edward Hopper

Andy Warhol

John Singer Sargent

Frida Kahlo
17 What term does nene discover by Anna Freud?

The subconscious

Psychosexual desire

Chronic loser

The id
18 What item did nene think to be a precious gift from Juan?

A suit

Diamond ring

Cross necklace

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants
19 What is the name of Juan's "film" that he describes to nene?

Studies in Homosexuality

Going the Distance

Last Days at the Palace

The Opening of a Door
20 Who ends up the named author of Sex Variants?

Jan and Zhenya Gay

George Henry

DW Winnicott

Thomas Dickinson
21 What came to be the name of the place where the sex variant studies were conducted?

The Talking Center

The Castle

The Factory

The Palace of Observation
22 What job do nene and Liam take together at the start of their relationship?

Fermhands

Advertising models

Elderly caretakers

Grocery store clerks
23 How does nene metaphorize death?

Fading to the black

Slipping below the surface

Going into the sun

Falling over the edge
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?

Stories of him in the newspaper

Letter correspondence

Updates passed on from her mother

Long phone calls every week
25 What was nene describing when he met Juan for the first time at the psychiatric hospital?

A big band on the sidewalk

The dryness of the desert

His experience during the flood

A grey photo of an old couple in a room full of cats

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