Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?
The Palace

Jan Gay's house

The mental hospital

San Francisco
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?
Zhenya

Emma Goldman

Juan

Nadia
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?
Through friends

The Sex Variants study

The mental institution

A gay bar
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?
Homer

Petrarch

Robert Lowell

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

1974

1950

2000
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

Blackout or erasure poetry

Plagiarism

Experimental prose
8 What structures the present day action of the novel?
A memory of a single day

A conversation

A romance

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

Look at his books

Follow him out weeping

Sit down and start writing the book
10 Which test does nene make a blackout poem from?
The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Citizenship Test

The Mental Wellness Test

The Eye Exam
11 Where does nene go after Juan dies?
Home to San Francisco

France

West to Los Angeles

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?
Five years

18 days

1 day

Three months
14 What kind of doctor was Jan Gay's father?
Optometrist

Psychologist

Gynecologist

Family Doctor
15 What did Jan need in order to publish her research?
A dozen more participants

The endorsement of a male doctor

Money

A strong thesis
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?
Chronic loser

Psychosexual desire

The id

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

Cross necklace

A suit

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

The Opening of a Door

Last Days at the Palace

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

Thomas Dickinson

George Henry

Jan and Zhenya Gay
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?
Advertising models

Grocery store clerks

Elderly caretakers

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

Going into the sun

Slipping below the surface

Fading to the black
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?
Long phone calls every week

Stories of him in the newspaper

Letter correspondence

Updates passed on from her mother
25 What was nene describing when he met Juan for the first time at the psychiatric hospital?
His experience during the flood

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

The dryness of the desert

A big band on the sidewalk

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