Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?

The mental hospital

San Francisco

The Palace

Jan Gay's house
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?

Zhenya

Juan

Emma Goldman

Nadia
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?

The mental institution

The Sex Variants study

Through friends

A gay bar
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?

Petrarch

Robert Browning

Homer

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

Homosexuality

Depression

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

Experimental prose

Blackout or erasure poetry

Plagiarism

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

A conversation

A memory of a single day

A wedding

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

Follow him out weeping

Look at his books

Sit down and start writing the book

Leave in the opposite direction
10 Which test does nene make a blackout poem from?

The Citizenship Test

The Mental Wellness Test

The Eye Exam

The Masculinity-Femininity Test
11 Where does nene go after Juan dies?

West to Los Angeles

France

Home to San Francisco

Back east through the desert
12 Who was Jan Gay's first crush?

Emma Goldman

Her teacher

The researcher she co-authored with

Juan
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?

Gynecologist

Psychologist

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?

Frida Kahlo

Andy Warhol

Edward Hopper

John Singer Sargent
17 What term does nene discover by Anna Freud?

Chronic loser

Psychosexual desire

The id

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

A suit

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

Diamond ring

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

Last Days at the Palace

Going the Distance

Studies in Homosexuality

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

George Henry

Jan and Zhenya Gay

DW Winnicott

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?

Advertising models

Elderly caretakers

Grocery store clerks

Fermhands
23 How does nene metaphorize death?

Falling over the edge

Slipping below the surface

Fading to the black

Going into the sun
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?

Letter correspondence

Long phone calls every week

Stories of him in the newspaper

Updates passed on from her mother
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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