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?
Emma Goldman

Juan

Nadia

Zhenya
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?
A gay bar

The Sex Variants study

The mental institution

Through friends
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?
2000

1950

1974

1962
6 What "syndrome" was Juan brought to the mental hospital for?
Puerto Rican Syndrome

Depression

Homosexuality

Munchausen Syndrome
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 conversation

A wedding

A romance

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

Leave in the opposite direction

Follow him out weeping

Look at his books
10 Which test does nene make a blackout poem from?
The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Mental Wellness Test

The Citizenship Test

The Eye Exam
11 Where does nene go after Juan dies?
Home to San Francisco

West to Los Angeles

Back east through the desert

France
12 Who was Jan Gay's first crush?
Juan

The researcher she co-authored with

Her teacher

Emma Goldman
13 How long did Juan and nene know each other earlier in their lives?
1 day

Five years

Three months

18 days
14 What kind of doctor was Jan Gay's father?
Psychologist

Gynecologist

Family Doctor

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

A dozen more participants

The endorsement of a male doctor

Money
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?
John Singer Sargent

Edward Hopper

Andy Warhol

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

Psychosexual desire

Chronic loser

The subconscious
18 What item did nene think to be a precious gift from Juan?
Diamond ring

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

A suit

Cross necklace
19 What is the name of Juan's "film" that he describes to nene?
Last Days at the Palace

Studies in Homosexuality

The Opening of a Door

Going the Distance
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 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?
Advertising models

Elderly caretakers

Fermhands

Grocery store clerks
23 How does nene metaphorize death?
Going into the sun

Slipping below the surface

Fading to the black

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

Long phone calls every week

Updates passed on from her mother

Stories of him in the newspaper
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

The dryness of the desert

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

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