Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?
The Palace

Jan Gay's house

San Francisco

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

Nadia

Juan

Emma Goldman
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 Browning

Robert Lowell

Homer
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
2000

1950

1962

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

Homosexuality

Munchausen Syndrome

Depression
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 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?
Follow him out weeping

Look at his books

Leave in the opposite direction

Sit down and start writing the book
10 Which test does nene make a blackout poem from?
The Eye Exam

The Mental Wellness Test

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Citizenship Test
11 Where does nene go after Juan dies?
West to Los Angeles

France

Back east through the desert

Home to San Francisco
12 Who was Jan Gay's first crush?
Juan

Emma Goldman

The researcher she co-authored with

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

18 days

Five years

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

Psychologist

Gynecologist

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

A dozen more participants

The endorsement of a male doctor

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

Andy Warhol

John Singer Sargent

Edward Hopper
17 What term does nene discover by Anna Freud?
The id

Psychosexual desire

The subconscious

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

Cross necklace

A suit

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

Going the Distance

Studies in Homosexuality

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

Jan and Zhenya Gay

Thomas Dickinson

George Henry
21 What came to be the name of the place where the sex variant studies were conducted?
The Factory

The Talking Center

The Castle

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

Grocery store clerks

Elderly caretakers

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?
Letter correspondence

Updates passed on from her mother

Long phone calls every week

Stories of him in the newspaper
25 What was nene describing when he met Juan for the first time at the psychiatric hospital?
A big band on the sidewalk

His experience during the flood

The dryness of the desert

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

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