The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Sociology

Psychology

Anthropology

English literature
2 Where does Warner teach?

UCLA

Yale

Princeton

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

Gay Letters

The Letters of the Nation

Print Culture

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

Marxism

Mattachine

Subculture

Counterpublic
5 What Supreme Court case upheld the criminalization of sodomy?

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas
6 What Supreme Court case legalized sodomy?

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade

Lawrence v. Texas

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

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas

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

1999

2001

1990

1989
9 With what kind of theory is the book associated?

Postcolonial theory

Marxist theory

Psychoanalysis

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

1970s

1980s

2000s

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

2000s

1960s

1970s

1980s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?

1950

1960

1945

1969
13 What is a name for a political witch-hunt?

Clintonism

McCarthyism

Reaganism

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

Human Rights Campaign

ACT-UP

Gay Liberation Front

Republican Party
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

1989

1993

1996
17 What is a name for searching for sex?

Thumbing

Lensing

Cruising

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

Bathhouse

Gay bar

School

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

Showerhouse

Joe's Shack

Sex alley

Bathhouse
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?

1969

1993

1950

1989
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?

Chocolate

Strawberry

Vanilla

Banana
22 What is the name for scapegoating within a stigmatized identity?

Cruising

In-group purification

Coalition

Vanilla shame
23 Stigma literally refers to…

A sign of pleasure

A sign of danger

A mark on the body

A mark on a legal document
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?

Avant-garde gay politics

Subaltern politics

"Official" history

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

Sexy

Harmless

Permanent

Temporary

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