Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?
The mental hospital

Jan Gay's house

The Palace

San Francisco
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?
Juan

Zhenya

Nadia

Emma Goldman
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

Petrarch

Robert Lowell

Robert Browning
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
1974

1962

1950

2000
6 What "syndrome" was Juan brought to the mental hospital for?
Homosexuality

Puerto Rican Syndrome

Depression

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

Sonnet

Blackout or erasure poetry

Experimental prose
8 What structures the present day action of the novel?
A memory of a single day

A romance

A conversation

A wedding
9 What does nene do when Juan's body is taken out of the hospital?
Leave in the opposite direction

Sit down and start writing the book

Follow him out weeping

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

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Citizenship Test

The Mental Wellness Test
11 Where does nene go after Juan dies?
Back east through the desert

France

Home to San Francisco

West to Los Angeles
12 Who was Jan Gay's first crush?
Emma Goldman

Juan

Her teacher

The researcher she co-authored with
13 How long did Juan and nene know each other earlier in their lives?
Five years

18 days

Three months

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

Psychologist

Optometrist

Family Doctor
15 What did Jan need in order to publish her research?
A dozen more participants

A strong thesis

The endorsement of a male doctor

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

Andy Warhol

Edward Hopper

John Singer Sargent
17 What term does nene discover by Anna Freud?
Chronic loser

The subconscious

The id

Psychosexual desire
18 What item did nene think to be a precious gift from Juan?
Cross necklace

A suit

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

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

Last Days at the Palace

Going the Distance

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

George Henry

Thomas Dickinson

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

The Castle

The Factory

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

Elderly caretakers

Advertising models

Grocery store clerks
23 How does nene metaphorize death?
Falling over the edge

Going into the sun

Slipping below the surface

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

Letter correspondence

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

The dryness of the desert

A big band on the sidewalk

His experience during the flood

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