Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?

San Francisco

Jan Gay's house

The mental hospital

The Palace
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?

Zhenya

Emma Goldman

Juan

Nadia
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?

A gay bar

The Sex Variants study

Through friends

The mental institution
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?

Petrarch

Homer

Robert Browning

Robert Lowell
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?

1974

2000

1962

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

Puerto Rican Syndrome

Depression

Homosexuality

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

Blackout or erasure poetry

Sonnet

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?

Leave in the opposite direction

Look at his books

Sit down and start writing the book

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

The Mental Wellness Test

The Citizenship Test

The Eye Exam

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

Home to San Francisco

France

Back east through the desert

West to Los Angeles
12 Who was Jan Gay's first crush?

Her teacher

The researcher she co-authored with

Emma Goldman

Juan
13 How long did Juan and nene know each other earlier in their lives?

Three months

18 days

1 day

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

Psychologist

Optometrist

Family Doctor

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

A strong thesis

Money

The endorsement of a male doctor

A dozen more participants
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?

Frida Kahlo

John Singer Sargent

Andy Warhol

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

Chronic loser

The subconscious

The id

Psychosexual desire
18 What item did nene think to be a precious gift from Juan?

A suit

Diamond ring

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

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

Going the Distance

Last Days at the Palace

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 Factory

The Talking Center

The Castle

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

Grocery store clerks

Elderly caretakers

Fermhands

Advertising models
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

Long phone calls every week

Updates passed on from her mother

Letter correspondence
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

A big band on the sidewalk

The dryness of the desert

His experience during the flood

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