Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?
San Francisco

The mental hospital

The Palace

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

Emma Goldman

Juan

Zhenya
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?
The Sex Variants study

The mental institution

A gay bar

Through friends
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?
Robert Lowell

Homer

Robert Browning

Petrarch
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
1950

2000

1974

1962
6 What "syndrome" was Juan brought to the mental hospital for?
Depression

Homosexuality

Munchausen Syndrome

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

Experimental prose

Blackout or erasure poetry

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

A romance

A memory of a single day

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

Leave in the opposite direction

Sit down and start writing the book

Follow him out weeping
10 Which test does nene make a blackout poem from?
The Eye Exam

The Citizenship Test

The Mental Wellness Test

The Masculinity-Femininity Test
11 Where does nene go after Juan dies?
West to Los Angeles

Home to San Francisco

Back east through the desert

France
12 Who was Jan Gay's first crush?
The researcher she co-authored with

Juan

Her teacher

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

Five years

18 days

1 day
14 What kind of doctor was Jan Gay's father?
Family Doctor

Optometrist

Gynecologist

Psychologist
15 What did Jan need in order to publish her research?
A dozen more participants

A strong thesis

The endorsement of a male doctor

Money
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?
Frida Kahlo

Andy Warhol

John Singer Sargent

Edward Hopper
17 What term does nene discover by Anna Freud?
Psychosexual desire

The id

The subconscious

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

Diamond ring

A suit

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

Going the Distance

Studies in Homosexuality

Last Days at the Palace
20 Who ends up the named author of Sex Variants?
DW Winnicott

George Henry

Thomas Dickinson

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

The Palace of Observation

The Castle

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

Advertising models

Elderly caretakers

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

Going into the sun

Slipping below the surface

Falling over the edge
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?
Stories of him in the newspaper

Updates passed on from her mother

Letter correspondence

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

The dryness of the desert

His experience during the flood

A big band on the sidewalk

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