Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?
The Palace

San Francisco

Jan Gay's house

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

Emma Goldman

Zhenya

Nadia
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?
The Sex Variants study

Through friends

A gay bar

The mental institution
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?
Robert Browning

Robert Lowell

Petrarch

Homer
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
1962

1950

1974

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

Puerto Rican Syndrome

Homosexuality

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

Sonnet

Experimental prose

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

A wedding

A romance

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

Follow him out weeping

Leave in the opposite direction

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

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Eye Exam

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

Home to San Francisco

France

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?
Three months

1 day

18 days

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

Psychologist

Family Doctor

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

Money

The endorsement of a male doctor

A dozen more participants
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?
Chronic loser

Psychosexual desire

The subconscious

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

A suit

Diamond ring

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants
19 What is the name of Juan's "film" that he describes to nene?
Studies in Homosexuality

The Opening of a Door

Last Days at the Palace

Going the Distance
20 Who ends up the named author of Sex Variants?
Thomas Dickinson

DW Winnicott

Jan and Zhenya Gay

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

The Factory

The Castle

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

Elderly caretakers

Grocery store clerks

Fermhands
23 How does nene metaphorize death?
Falling over the edge

Slipping below the surface

Fading to the black

Going into the sun
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?
Long phone calls every week

Stories of him in the newspaper

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

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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