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

Emma Goldman

Nadia

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

A gay bar

The mental institution

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

Homer

Robert Lowell

Robert Browning
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
2000

1974

1962

1950
6 What "syndrome" was Juan brought to the mental hospital for?
Munchausen Syndrome

Puerto Rican Syndrome

Homosexuality

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

Plagiarism

Sonnet

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

A wedding

A conversation

A memory of a single day
9 What does nene do when Juan's body is taken out of the hospital?
Sit down and start writing the book

Follow him out weeping

Look at his books

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?
Back east through the desert

France

West to Los Angeles

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

The researcher she co-authored with

Juan

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

1 day

Three months

Five years
14 What kind of doctor was Jan Gay's father?
Gynecologist

Family Doctor

Psychologist

Optometrist
15 What did Jan need in order to publish her research?
Money

A strong thesis

A dozen more participants

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 id

The subconscious

Chronic loser

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

Cross necklace

Diamond ring

A suit
19 What is the name of Juan's "film" that he describes to nene?
Going the Distance

The Opening of a Door

Studies in Homosexuality

Last Days at the Palace
20 Who ends up the named author of Sex Variants?
Thomas Dickinson

Jan and Zhenya Gay

DW Winnicott

George Henry
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?
Grocery store clerks

Fermhands

Advertising models

Elderly caretakers
23 How does nene metaphorize death?
Fading to the black

Slipping below the surface

Going into the sun

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

Stories of him in the newspaper

Long phone calls every week

Updates passed on from her mother
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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