Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?

San Francisco

Jan Gay's house

The Palace

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

Juan

Zhenya

Emma Goldman

Nadia
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?

Robert Lowell

Robert Browning

Petrarch

Homer
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?

2000

1950

1962

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

Homosexuality

Munchausen Syndrome

Puerto Rican Syndrome

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

Sonnet

Blackout or erasure poetry

Plagiarism

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

A wedding

A memory of a single day

A romance

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

Follow him out weeping

Sit down and start writing the book

Look at his books

Leave in the opposite direction
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?

France

West to Los Angeles

Back east through the desert

Home to San Francisco
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?

Psychologist

Family Doctor

Gynecologist

Optometrist
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

Andy Warhol

Edward Hopper

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

Psychosexual desire

Chronic loser

The subconscious

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

Diamond ring

A suit

Cross necklace

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

Studies in Homosexuality

Last Days at the Palace

The Opening of a Door

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

Thomas Dickinson

George Henry

Jan and Zhenya Gay

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

The Talking Center

The Factory

The Palace of Observation

The Castle
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?

Slipping below the surface

Going into the sun

Fading to the black

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

Updates passed on from her mother

Stories of him in the newspaper

Long phone calls every week

Letter correspondence
25 What was nene describing when he met Juan for the first time at the psychiatric hospital?

The dryness of the desert

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

A big band on the sidewalk

His experience during the flood

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