Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?

The Palace

The mental hospital

Jan Gay's house

San Francisco
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?

Zhenya

Emma Goldman

Nadia

Juan
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?

The mental institution

Through friends

A gay bar

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

Homer

Petrarch

Robert Lowell

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

1962

1974

1950

2000
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?

Blackout or erasure poetry

Experimental prose

Plagiarism

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

A romance

A memory of a single day

A wedding

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

Leave in the opposite direction

Sit down and start writing the book

Follow him out weeping

Look at his books
10 Which test does nene make a blackout poem from?

The Citizenship Test

The Mental Wellness Test

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

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

West to Los Angeles

Back east through the desert

France

Home to San Francisco
12 Who was Jan Gay's first crush?

Emma Goldman

The researcher she co-authored with

Her teacher

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

Five years

18 days

1 day

Three months
14 What kind of doctor was Jan Gay's father?

Gynecologist

Optometrist

Psychologist

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

A dozen more participants

Money

A strong thesis

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

Psychosexual desire

Chronic loser

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

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

A suit

Diamond ring

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

Last Days at the Palace

Studies in Homosexuality

Going the Distance

The Opening of a Door
20 Who ends up the named author of Sex Variants?

Thomas Dickinson

George Henry

DW Winnicott

Jan and Zhenya Gay
21 What came to be the name of the place where the sex variant studies were conducted?

The Factory

The Palace of Observation

The Talking Center

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

Advertising models

Fermhands

Elderly caretakers

Grocery store clerks
23 How does nene metaphorize death?

Falling over the edge

Fading to the black

Going into the sun

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

Updates passed on from her mother

Letter correspondence
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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