Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?
Jan Gay's house

The Palace

The mental hospital

San Francisco
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?
Zhenya

Emma Goldman

Nadia

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

Through friends

The mental institution

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?
2000

1950

1962

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

Puerto Rican Syndrome

Homosexuality

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

Sonnet

Blackout or erasure poetry

Experimental prose
8 What structures the present day action of the novel?
A conversation

A memory of a single day

A romance

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

Leave in the opposite direction

Follow him out weeping

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

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Eye Exam

The Citizenship Test
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?
Emma Goldman

Her teacher

Juan

The researcher she co-authored with
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

Family Doctor

Optometrist

Gynecologist
15 What did Jan need in order to publish her research?
The endorsement of a male doctor

A strong thesis

A dozen more participants

Money
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?
Andy Warhol

John Singer Sargent

Frida Kahlo

Edward Hopper
17 What term does nene discover by Anna Freud?
The subconscious

The id

Chronic loser

Psychosexual desire
18 What item did nene think to be a precious gift from Juan?
The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

A suit

Cross necklace

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

Studies in Homosexuality

Going the Distance

Last Days at the Palace
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 Factory

The Talking Center

The Palace of Observation

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

Elderly caretakers

Advertising models

Grocery store clerks
23 How does nene metaphorize death?
Fading to the black

Falling over the edge

Going into the sun

Slipping below the surface
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?
Letter correspondence

Updates passed on from her mother

Stories of him in the newspaper

Long phone calls every week
25 What was nene describing when he met Juan for the first time at the psychiatric hospital?
A grey photo of an old couple in a room full of cats

His experience during the flood

A big band on the sidewalk

The dryness of the desert

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