The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

English literature

Sociology

Psychology
2 Where does Warner teach?
Yale

UCLA

Harvard

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

Gay Letters

The Letters of the Nation

Print Culture
4 Which concept is associated with Warner?
Mattachine

Marxism

Subculture

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

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade
6 What Supreme Court case legalized sodomy?
Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas

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

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
1990

2001

1989

1999
9 With what kind of theory is the book associated?
Queer theory

Marxist theory

Postcolonial theory

Psychoanalysis
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?
1960s

1970s

1980s

2000s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1945

1950

1969

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

Reaganism

Clintonism

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

Gay Liberation Front

Republican Party

Human Rights Campaign
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
2003

1990

1989

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

1993

1989

2001
17 What is a name for searching for sex?
Lensing

Bathhousing

Cruising

Thumbing
18 All of the following are associated with queer space EXCEPT?
Gay bar

Public park

Bathhouse

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

Bathhouse

Joe's Shack

Sex alley
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

Cruising

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

A sign of pleasure

A sign of danger

A mark on the body
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?
Subaltern politics

"Official" history

“Official” gay politics

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

Harmless

Sexy

Permanent

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