Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?

The mental hospital

Jan Gay's house

The Palace

San Francisco
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?

Juan

Nadia

Emma Goldman

Zhenya
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?

The Sex Variants study

Through friends

The mental institution

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?

1950

2000

1974

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

Depression

Munchausen Syndrome

Homosexuality

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

Plagiarism

Sonnet

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?

Look at his books

Follow him out weeping

Sit down and start writing the book

Leave in the opposite direction
10 Which test does nene make a blackout poem from?

The Citizenship Test

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Mental Wellness Test

The Eye Exam
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

Emma Goldman

Juan

The researcher she co-authored with
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?

Gynecologist

Family Doctor

Optometrist

Psychologist
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

Frida Kahlo

Andy Warhol

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

Chronic loser

The id

The subconscious

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

A suit

Diamond ring

Cross necklace

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

Studies in Homosexuality

Last Days at the Palace

The Opening of a Door

Going the Distance
20 Who ends up the named author of Sex Variants?

George Henry

Thomas Dickinson

Jan and Zhenya Gay

DW Winnicott
21 What came to be the name of the place where the sex variant studies were conducted?

The Palace of Observation

The Castle

The Factory

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

Grocery store clerks

Advertising models

Fermhands

Elderly caretakers
23 How does nene metaphorize death?

Fading to the black

Falling over the edge

Slipping below the surface

Going into the sun
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?

Updates passed on from her mother

Stories of him in the newspaper

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

A big band on the sidewalk

His experience during the flood

The dryness of the desert

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