Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?
Jan Gay's house

The Palace

The mental hospital

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

Nadia

Zhenya

Emma Goldman
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?
The Sex Variants study

A gay bar

The mental institution

Through friends
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?
Homer

Robert Browning

Petrarch

Robert Lowell
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
1950

2000

1962

1974
6 What "syndrome" was Juan brought to the mental hospital for?
Puerto Rican Syndrome

Munchausen Syndrome

Depression

Homosexuality
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 romance

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

Sit down and start writing the book

Look at his books

Follow him out weeping
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?
Back east through the desert

Home to San Francisco

France

West to Los Angeles
12 Who was Jan Gay's first crush?
The researcher she co-authored with

Her teacher

Juan

Emma Goldman
13 How long did Juan and nene know each other earlier in their lives?
Three months

18 days

1 day

Five years
14 What kind of doctor was Jan Gay's father?
Family Doctor

Psychologist

Optometrist

Gynecologist
15 What did Jan need in order to publish her research?
The endorsement of a male doctor

A dozen more participants

Money

A strong thesis
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?
Frida Kahlo

Andy Warhol

John Singer Sargent

Edward Hopper
17 What term does nene discover by Anna Freud?
Chronic loser

The subconscious

The id

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

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

Cross necklace

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

Studies in Homosexuality

Last Days at the Palace

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

DW Winnicott

George Henry

Jan and Zhenya Gay
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 Factory

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

Fermhands

Advertising models

Grocery store clerks
23 How does nene metaphorize death?
Slipping below the surface

Going into the sun

Falling over the edge

Fading to the black
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?
Letter correspondence

Long phone calls every week

Updates passed on from her mother

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

His experience during the flood

A big band on the sidewalk

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

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