Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?

Jan Gay's house

The Palace

San Francisco

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

Zhenya

Emma Goldman

Nadia

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?

Homer

Robert Lowell

Robert Browning

Petrarch
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

Puerto Rican Syndrome

Munchausen Syndrome

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

Sonnet

Experimental prose

Plagiarism

Blackout or erasure poetry
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?

Sit down and start writing the book

Look at his books

Leave in the opposite direction

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

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Eye Exam

The Mental Wellness Test

The Citizenship Test
11 Where does nene go after Juan dies?

Back east through the desert

West to Los Angeles

Home to San Francisco

France
12 Who was Jan Gay's first crush?

Her teacher

Emma Goldman

Juan

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

Three months

18 days

1 day

Five years
14 What kind of doctor was Jan Gay's father?

Psychologist

Gynecologist

Optometrist

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

A dozen more participants

A strong thesis

Money

The endorsement of a male doctor
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?

Edward Hopper

Andy Warhol

John Singer Sargent

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

The subconscious

The id

Chronic loser

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

A suit

Cross necklace

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

The Opening of a Door

Going the Distance

Last Days at the Palace
20 Who ends up the named author of Sex Variants?

Thomas Dickinson

DW Winnicott

George Henry

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 Talking Center

The Castle

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

Elderly caretakers

Fermhands

Advertising models

Grocery store clerks
23 How does nene metaphorize death?

Going into the sun

Slipping below the surface

Falling over the edge

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

Stories of him in the newspaper

Long phone calls every week

Letter correspondence

Updates passed on from her mother
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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