The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

1 What is Michael Warner’s primary field of study?
Sociology

English literature

Anthropology

Psychology
2 Where does Warner teach?
Princeton

Harvard

UCLA

Yale
3 What was the title of Warner’s first book?
The Letters of the Republic

Print Culture

Gay Letters

The Letters of the Nation
4 Which concept is associated with Warner?
Marxism

Mattachine

Counterpublic

Subculture
5 What Supreme Court case upheld the criminalization of sodomy?
Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick
6 What Supreme Court case legalized sodomy?
Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade
7 What Supreme Court case legalized same-sex marriage?
Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
1999

1989

2001

1990
9 With what kind of theory is the book associated?
Marxist theory

Psychoanalysis

Postcolonial theory

Queer theory
10 What decade is associated with the rise of queer theory?
1990s

1980s

1970s

2000s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?
1980s

1960s

1970s

2000s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1945

1950

1969

1960
13 What is a name for a political witch-hunt?
McCarthyism

Bushism

Reaganism

Clintonism
14 Which organization is associated with the “official” gay rights movement?
Republican Party

Human Rights Campaign

Gay Liberation Front

ACT-UP
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
1990

1989

2003

1996
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?
2001

1996

1989

1993
17 What is a name for searching for sex?
Cruising

Thumbing

Lensing

Bathhousing
18 All of the following are associated with queer space EXCEPT?
Bathhouse

Public park

Gay bar

School
19 What is the name of a commercial space for men to have sex with men?
Showerhouse

Joe's Shack

Bathhouse

Sex alley
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1993

1950

1989

1969
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Strawberry

Banana

Vanilla

Chocolate
22 What is the name for scapegoating within a stigmatized identity?
In-group purification

Coalition

Cruising

Vanilla shame
23 Stigma literally refers to…
A mark on a legal document

A sign of danger

A mark on the body

A sign of pleasure
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?
“Official” gay politics

Subaltern politics

"Official" history

Avant-garde gay politics
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …
Sexy

Permanent

Harmless

Temporary

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