Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?
San Francisco

The Palace

Jan Gay's house

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

Zhenya

Nadia

Emma Goldman
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?
A gay bar

The Sex Variants study

The mental institution

Through friends
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?
Robert Lowell

Robert Browning

Homer

Petrarch
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
1962

1950

2000

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

Munchausen Syndrome

Homosexuality

Puerto Rican Syndrome
7 What is the name of the form when you ink out parts of an existing text?
Experimental prose

Plagiarism

Sonnet

Blackout or erasure poetry
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?
Sit down and start writing the book

Look at his books

Leave in the opposite direction

Follow him out weeping
10 Which test does nene make a blackout poem from?
The Citizenship Test

The Mental Wellness Test

The Eye Exam

The Masculinity-Femininity Test
11 Where does nene go after Juan dies?
France

Home to San Francisco

Back east through the desert

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

Emma Goldman

The researcher she co-authored with

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

Five years

18 days

1 day
14 What kind of doctor was Jan Gay's father?
Psychologist

Optometrist

Family Doctor

Gynecologist
15 What did Jan need in order to publish her research?
The endorsement of a male doctor

Money

A dozen more participants

A strong thesis
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?
John Singer Sargent

Frida Kahlo

Edward Hopper

Andy Warhol
17 What term does nene discover by Anna Freud?
The id

Psychosexual desire

Chronic loser

The subconscious
18 What item did nene think to be a precious gift from Juan?
A suit

Diamond ring

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

Cross necklace
19 What is the name of Juan's "film" that he describes to nene?
Last Days at the Palace

Studies in Homosexuality

Going the Distance

The Opening of a Door
20 Who ends up the named author of Sex Variants?
Jan and Zhenya Gay

DW Winnicott

George Henry

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

The Palace of Observation

The Factory

The Talking Center
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?
Slipping below the surface

Falling over the edge

Going into the sun

Fading to the black
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?
Long phone calls every week

Updates passed on from her mother

Stories of him in the newspaper

Letter correspondence
25 What was nene describing when he met Juan for the first time at the psychiatric hospital?
The dryness of the desert

A big band on the sidewalk

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

His experience during the flood

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