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?
Emma Goldman

Zhenya

Juan

Nadia
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?
A gay bar

Through friends

The mental institution

The Sex Variants study
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?
Robert Lowell

Petrarch

Homer

Robert Browning
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
1962

1950

1974

2000
6 What "syndrome" was Juan brought to the mental hospital for?
Homosexuality

Puerto Rican Syndrome

Depression

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

Experimental prose

Plagiarism

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

A wedding

A memory of a single day

A conversation
9 What does nene do when Juan's body is taken out of the hospital?
Follow him out weeping

Sit down and start writing the book

Leave in the opposite direction

Look at his books
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?
West to Los Angeles

Home to San Francisco

France

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

Juan

Her teacher

The researcher she co-authored with
13 How long did Juan and nene know each other earlier in their lives?
18 days

Five years

1 day

Three months
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?
The endorsement of a male doctor

A strong thesis

Money

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

John Singer Sargent

Frida Kahlo

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

Chronic loser

The id

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

A suit

Cross necklace

Diamond ring
19 What is the name of Juan's "film" that he describes to nene?
Last Days at the Palace

Studies in Homosexuality

Going the Distance

The Opening of a Door
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 Factory

The Castle

The Talking Center

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

Grocery store clerks

Elderly caretakers

Fermhands
23 How does nene metaphorize death?
Falling over the edge

Slipping below the surface

Going into the sun

Fading to the black
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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