Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?

The Palace

The mental hospital

Jan Gay's house

San Francisco
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?

Juan

Emma Goldman

Nadia

Zhenya
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

Homer

Robert Lowell

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

2000

1950

1962

1974
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?

Sonnet

Plagiarism

Experimental prose

Blackout or erasure poetry
8 What structures the present day action of the novel?

A memory of a single day

A conversation

A wedding

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

Sit down and start writing the book

Leave in the opposite direction

Look at his books

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?

France

Back east through the desert

West to Los Angeles

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

Juan

The researcher she co-authored with

Emma Goldman

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

18 days

Five years

Three months

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

Family Doctor

Optometrist

Psychologist

Gynecologist
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?

Andy Warhol

Frida Kahlo

Edward Hopper

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

The id

Psychosexual desire

Chronic loser

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

Cross necklace

A suit

Diamond ring

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

Last Days at the Palace

The Opening of a Door

Going the Distance

Studies in Homosexuality
20 Who ends up the named author of Sex Variants?

Jan and Zhenya Gay

Thomas Dickinson

George Henry

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 Castle

The Palace of Observation
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?

Going into the sun

Slipping below the surface

Fading to the black

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

Long phone calls every week

Letter correspondence

Updates passed on from her mother

Stories of him in the newspaper
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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