Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?

San Francisco

The mental hospital

Jan Gay's house

The Palace
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?

Nadia

Zhenya

Juan

Emma Goldman
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?

Homer

Robert Browning

Petrarch

Robert Lowell
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?

1974

1962

2000

1950
6 What "syndrome" was Juan brought to the mental hospital for?

Munchausen Syndrome

Depression

Puerto Rican Syndrome

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

Experimental prose

Plagiarism

Blackout or erasure poetry

Sonnet
8 What structures the present day action of the novel?

A memory of a single day

A conversation

A wedding

A romance
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 Citizenship Test

The Eye Exam

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Mental Wellness 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?

The researcher she co-authored with

Her teacher

Emma Goldman

Juan
13 How long did Juan and nene know each other earlier in their lives?

Five years

Three months

18 days

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

Optometrist

Psychologist

Gynecologist

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?

John Singer Sargent

Edward Hopper

Frida Kahlo

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

Psychosexual desire

The subconscious

Chronic loser

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

A suit

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

Cross necklace

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

Going the Distance

The Opening of a Door

Last Days at the Palace

Studies in Homosexuality
20 Who ends up the named author of Sex Variants?

DW Winnicott

George Henry

Jan and Zhenya Gay

Thomas Dickinson
21 What came to be the name of the place where the sex variant studies were conducted?

The Castle

The Palace of Observation

The Talking Center

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

Grocery store clerks

Advertising models

Elderly caretakers

Fermhands
23 How does nene metaphorize death?

Going into the sun

Falling over the edge

Fading to the black

Slipping below the surface
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?

His experience during the flood

A big band on the sidewalk

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

The dryness of the desert

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