Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?
San Francisco

Jan Gay's house

The mental hospital

The Palace
2 Who is Jan Gay's partner?
Nadia

Juan

Zhenya

Emma Goldman
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?
The mental institution

The Sex Variants study

A gay bar

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

Robert Lowell

Petrarch

Homer
5 What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
1962

1950

1974

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

Puerto Rican Syndrome

Munchausen Syndrome

Homosexuality
7 What is the name of the form when you ink out parts of an existing text?
Sonnet

Plagiarism

Experimental prose

Blackout or erasure poetry
8 What structures the present day action of the novel?
A conversation

A wedding

A memory of a single day

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

Follow him out weeping

Sit down and start writing the book

Look at his books
10 Which test does nene make a blackout poem from?
The Citizenship Test

The Eye Exam

The Mental Wellness Test

The Masculinity-Femininity 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?
The researcher she co-authored with

Emma Goldman

Juan

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

1 day

Five years

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

Gynecologist

Optometrist

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

A dozen more participants

The endorsement of a male doctor

A strong thesis
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?
Andy Warhol

John Singer Sargent

Edward Hopper

Frida Kahlo
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?
A suit

The blacked out copy of Sex Variants

Diamond ring

Cross necklace
19 What is the name of Juan's "film" that he describes to nene?
Studies in Homosexuality

The Opening of a Door

Last Days at the Palace

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 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?
Elderly caretakers

Fermhands

Advertising models

Grocery store clerks
23 How does nene metaphorize death?
Going into the sun

Fading to the black

Falling over the edge

Slipping below the surface
24 How did young Jan keep up with her father?
Updates passed on from her mother

Letter correspondence

Stories of him in the newspaper

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

The dryness of the desert

His experience during the flood

A big band on the sidewalk

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