Blackouts Quizzes

Blackouts Quiz

1 Where does the novel primary take place?
The mental hospital

The Palace

Jan Gay's house

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

Emma Goldman

Juan

Nadia
3 Where did Juan and nene meet?
Through friends

The mental institution

A gay bar

The Sex Variants study
4 Juan recounts the entire plot of an epic poem by which of the following poets to nene?
Homer

Robert Lowell

Petrarch

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

1974

2000

1950
6 What "syndrome" was Juan brought to the mental hospital for?
Munchausen Syndrome

Puerto Rican Syndrome

Depression

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

Experimental prose

Blackout or erasure poetry

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

A romance

A wedding

A conversation
9 What does nene do when Juan's body is taken out of the hospital?
Look at his books

Follow him out weeping

Leave in the opposite direction

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

The Eye Exam

The Masculinity-Femininity Test

The Citizenship Test
11 Where does nene go after Juan dies?
West to Los Angeles

Home to San Francisco

Back east through the desert

France
12 Who was Jan Gay's first crush?
The researcher she co-authored with

Her teacher

Emma Goldman

Juan
13 How long did Juan and nene know each other earlier in their lives?
1 day

Five years

18 days

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

Psychologist

Family Doctor

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

A strong thesis

Money

A dozen more participants
16 What famous artist lived with the Gays at one point?
John Singer Sargent

Frida Kahlo

Andy Warhol

Edward Hopper
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?
Diamond ring

A suit

Cross necklace

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

Studies in Homosexuality

The Opening of a Door

Last Days at the Palace
20 Who ends up the named author of Sex Variants?
Thomas Dickinson

George Henry

Jan and Zhenya Gay

DW Winnicott
21 What came to be the name of the place where the sex variant studies were conducted?
The Talking Center

The Palace of Observation

The Castle

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

Advertising models

Fermhands

Grocery store clerks
23 How does nene metaphorize death?
Falling over the edge

Fading to the black

Slipping below the surface

Going into the sun
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

A big band on the sidewalk

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

His experience during the flood

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