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1 Where does the novel primary take place?

The mental hospital

The Palace

Jan Gay's house

San Francisco
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?

Nadia

Emma Goldman

Zhenya

Juan
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?

Through friends

A gay bar

The mental institution

The Sex Variants study
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?

Petrarch

Robert Lowell

Homer

Robert Browning
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?

1962

1974

1950

2000
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

Blackout or erasure poetry

Sonnet

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

A romance

A memory of a single day

A wedding

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

Follow him out weeping

Leave in the opposite direction

Sit down and start writing the book

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

The Eye Exam

The Citizenship Test

The Mental Wellness Test

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

West to Los Angeles

France

Home to San Francisco

Back east through the desert
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?

18 days

Five years

1 day

Three months
14 What kind of doctor was Jan Gay's father?

Family Doctor

Psychologist

Optometrist

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

Money

A strong thesis

The endorsement of a male doctor

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

John Singer Sargent

Edward Hopper

Andy Warhol

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

Chronic loser

The subconscious

Psychosexual desire

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

Cross necklace

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

A suit

Diamond ring
19 What is the name of Juan's "film" that he describes to nene?

Last Days at the Palace

The Opening of a Door

Studies in Homosexuality

Going the Distance
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 Factory

The Castle

The Palace of Observation

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

Grocery store clerks

Fermhands

Elderly caretakers

Advertising models
23 How does nene metaphorize death?

Falling over the edge

Slipping below the surface

Going into the sun

Fading to the black
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?

Letter correspondence

Stories of him in the newspaper

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?

The dryness of the desert

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

A big band on the sidewalk

His experience during the flood

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