Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?
Jan Gay's house

The mental hospital

The Palace

San Francisco
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?
Emma Goldman

Juan

Nadia

Zhenya
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?
Through friends

The mental institution

The Sex Variants study

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

Robert Browning

Petrarch

Robert Lowell
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
1962

1974

2000

1950
6 What "syndrome" was Juan brought to the mental hospital for?
Puerto Rican Syndrome

Depression

Munchausen Syndrome

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

Blackout or erasure poetry

Experimental prose

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

A wedding

A memory of a single day

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

Leave in the opposite direction

Sit down and start writing the book

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

The Mental Wellness Test

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

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

West to Los Angeles

Home to San Francisco

Back east through the desert
12 Who was Jan Gay's first crush?
The researcher she co-authored with

Her teacher

Juan

Emma Goldman
13 How long did Juan and nene know each other earlier in their lives?
1 day

Five years

18 days

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

Gynecologist

Psychologist

Optometrist
15 What did Jan need in order to publish her research?
A strong thesis

The endorsement of a male doctor

A dozen more participants

Money
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?
Psychosexual desire

The id

The subconscious

Chronic loser
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

Studies in Homosexuality

Going the Distance

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

DW Winnicott

Thomas Dickinson

Jan and Zhenya Gay
21 What came to be the name of the place where the sex variant studies were conducted?
The Castle

The Palace of Observation

The Talking Center

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

Elderly caretakers

Grocery store clerks

Advertising models
23 How does nene metaphorize death?
Falling over the edge

Fading to the black

Slipping below the surface

Going into the sun
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?
Stories of him in the newspaper

Long phone calls every week

Updates passed on from her mother

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

His experience during the flood

A big band on the sidewalk

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