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1 Where does the novel primary take place?
San Francisco

Jan Gay's house

The mental hospital

The Palace
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?
Homer

Robert Lowell

Petrarch

Robert Browning
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
2000

1962

1950

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

Depression

Puerto Rican Syndrome

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

Sonnet

Plagiarism

Blackout or erasure poetry
8 What structures the present day action of the novel?
A memory of a single day

A conversation

A wedding

A romance
9 What does nene do when Juan's body is taken out of the hospital?
Follow him out weeping

Leave in the opposite direction

Look at his books

Sit down and start writing the book
10 Which test does nene make a blackout poem from?
The Mental Wellness Test

The Eye Exam

The Citizenship Test

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

Back east through the desert

Home to San Francisco

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?
Gynecologist

Optometrist

Psychologist

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

A dozen more participants

A strong thesis

Money
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?
Frida Kahlo

Edward Hopper

John Singer Sargent

Andy Warhol
17 What term does nene discover by Anna Freud?
Psychosexual desire

Chronic loser

The id

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

A suit

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

The Opening of a Door

Last Days at the Palace
20 Who ends up the named author of Sex Variants?
Jan and Zhenya Gay

George Henry

Thomas Dickinson

DW Winnicott
21 What came to be the name of the place where the sex variant studies were conducted?
The Talking Center

The Factory

The Castle

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

Grocery store clerks

Elderly caretakers

Fermhands
23 How does nene metaphorize death?
Slipping below the surface

Going into the sun

Falling over the edge

Fading to the black
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?
Updates passed on from her mother

Letter correspondence

Stories of him in the newspaper

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

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

His experience during the flood

The dryness of the desert

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