Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?

Jan Gay's house

The Palace

San Francisco

The mental hospital
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?

Zhenya

Nadia

Juan

Emma Goldman
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?

The mental institution

Through friends

The Sex Variants study

A gay bar
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?

1962

1974

1950

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

Homosexuality

Munchausen Syndrome

Depression

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

Blackout or erasure poetry

Experimental prose

Sonnet

Plagiarism
8 What structures the present day action of the novel?

A memory of a single day

A romance

A conversation

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

Look at his books

Sit down and start writing the book

Leave in the opposite direction

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

The Citizenship Test

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Eye Exam

The Mental Wellness Test
11 Where does nene go after Juan dies?

France

West to Los Angeles

Back east through the desert

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

The researcher she co-authored with

Emma Goldman

Her teacher

Juan
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?

Psychologist

Family Doctor

Optometrist

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

A dozen more participants

A strong thesis

Money

The endorsement of a male doctor
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?

Edward Hopper

Andy Warhol

Frida Kahlo

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

The subconscious

The id

Psychosexual desire

Chronic loser
18 What item did nene think to be a precious gift from Juan?

Cross necklace

A suit

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

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

Last Days at the Palace

The Opening of a Door

Studies in Homosexuality

Going the Distance
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 Castle

The Talking Center

The Palace of Observation

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

Fermhands

Advertising models

Elderly caretakers

Grocery store clerks
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?

Letter correspondence

Updates passed on from her mother

Long phone calls every week

Stories of him in the newspaper
25 What was nene describing when he met Juan for the first time at the psychiatric hospital?

His experience during the flood

The dryness of the desert

A grey photo of an old couple in a room full of cats

A big band on the sidewalk

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