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1 Where does the novel primary take place?

The mental hospital

San Francisco

The Palace

Jan Gay's house
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?

Zhenya

Juan

Nadia

Emma Goldman
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?

A gay bar

The mental institution

Through friends

The Sex Variants study
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?

Robert Lowell

Homer

Robert Browning

Petrarch
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?

2000

1950

1962

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

Munchausen Syndrome

Homosexuality

Puerto Rican Syndrome

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

Plagiarism

Sonnet

Experimental prose

Blackout or erasure poetry
8 What structures the present day action of the novel?

A romance

A wedding

A conversation

A memory of a single day
9 What does nene do when Juan's body is taken out of the hospital?

Sit down and start writing the book

Follow him out weeping

Look at his books

Leave in the opposite direction
10 Which test does nene make a blackout poem from?

The Mental Wellness Test

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Citizenship Test

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

France

Home to San Francisco

Back east through the desert

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

Her teacher

Juan

Emma Goldman

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

1 day

Three months

18 days

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

Family Doctor

Gynecologist

Optometrist

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

Money

A dozen more participants

A strong thesis

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

John Singer Sargent

Edward Hopper

Frida Kahlo

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

The subconscious

Psychosexual desire

Chronic loser

The id
18 What item did nene think to be a precious gift from Juan?

Diamond ring

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

Cross necklace

A suit
19 What is the name of Juan's "film" that he describes to nene?

Studies in Homosexuality

Last Days at the Palace

The Opening of a Door

Going the Distance
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 Castle

The Palace of Observation

The Factory

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

Grocery store clerks

Advertising models

Fermhands

Elderly caretakers
23 How does nene metaphorize death?

Going into the sun

Fading to the black

Slipping below the surface

Falling over the edge
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?

Stories of him in the newspaper

Updates passed on from her mother

Letter correspondence

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

The dryness of the desert

His experience during the flood

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