The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Anthropology

Psychology

English literature
2 Where does Warner teach?
Yale

UCLA

Princeton

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

Gay Letters

Print Culture

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

Counterpublic

Subculture

Mattachine
5 What Supreme Court case upheld the criminalization of sodomy?
Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges
6 What Supreme Court case legalized sodomy?
Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade
7 What Supreme Court case legalized same-sex marriage?
Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
1999

2001

1989

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

Psychoanalysis

Marxist theory

Postcolonial theory
10 What decade is associated with the rise of queer theory?
2000s

1970s

1980s

1990s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?
1970s

2000s

1960s

1980s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1969

1960

1950

1945
13 What is a name for a political witch-hunt?
Bushism

McCarthyism

Clintonism

Reaganism
14 Which organization is associated with the “official” gay rights movement?
ACT-UP

Human Rights Campaign

Gay Liberation Front

Republican Party
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
2003

1989

1990

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

1989

1996

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

Lensing

Thumbing

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

Gay bar

School

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

Sex alley

Showerhouse

Joe's Shack
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1989

1993

1969

1950
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Vanilla

Strawberry

Banana

Chocolate
22 What is the name for scapegoating within a stigmatized identity?
Vanilla shame

In-group purification

Coalition

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

A mark on the body

A sign of pleasure

A sign of danger
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?
"Official" history

Avant-garde gay politics

Subaltern politics

“Official” gay politics
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …
Permanent

Temporary

Harmless

Sexy

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