Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?

San Francisco

The Palace

The mental hospital

Jan Gay's house
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?

Emma Goldman

Zhenya

Nadia

Juan
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?

The Sex Variants study

A gay bar

Through friends

The mental institution
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?

Homer

Petrarch

Robert Browning

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

1974

2000

1950

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

Depression

Homosexuality

Munchausen Syndrome

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

Plagiarism

Blackout or erasure poetry

Experimental prose

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?

Sit down and start writing the book

Follow him out weeping

Look at his books

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

The Eye Exam

The Mental Wellness Test

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Citizenship Test
11 Where does nene go after Juan dies?

Back east through the desert

France

West to Los Angeles

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

Emma Goldman

The researcher she co-authored with

Juan

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

Three months

Five years

18 days

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

Gynecologist

Optometrist

Psychologist

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

A dozen more participants

The endorsement of a male doctor

A strong thesis

Money
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?

Frida Kahlo

Edward Hopper

Andy Warhol

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

Psychosexual desire

The id

Chronic loser

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

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

Diamond ring

Cross necklace

A suit
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

George Henry

DW Winnicott

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

The Palace of Observation

The Talking Center

The Castle

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

Grocery store clerks

Advertising models

Elderly caretakers

Fermhands
23 How does nene metaphorize death?

Fading to the black

Falling over the edge

Going into the sun

Slipping below the surface
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?

Stories of him in the newspaper

Updates passed on from her mother

Letter correspondence

Long phone calls every week
25 What was nene describing when he met Juan for the first time at the psychiatric hospital?

The dryness of the desert

A big band on the sidewalk

His experience during the flood

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

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