The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Psychology

Sociology

Anthropology
2 Where does Warner teach?
Harvard

Princeton

Yale

UCLA
3 What was the title of Warner’s first book?
The Letters of the Nation

Print Culture

The Letters of the Republic

Gay Letters
4 Which concept is associated with Warner?
Subculture

Counterpublic

Mattachine

Marxism
5 What Supreme Court case upheld the criminalization of sodomy?
Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade

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?
2001

1999

1990

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

Queer theory

Psychoanalysis

Postcolonial theory
10 What decade is associated with the rise of queer theory?
1970s

2000s

1980s

1990s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?
1960s

2000s

1980s

1970s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1945

1969

1960

1950
13 What is a name for a political witch-hunt?
Clintonism

McCarthyism

Bushism

Reaganism
14 Which organization is associated with the “official” gay rights movement?
Human Rights Campaign

Gay Liberation Front

Republican Party

ACT-UP
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
2003

1989

1990

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

1993

2001

1989
17 What is a name for searching for sex?
Thumbing

Cruising

Lensing

Bathhousing
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?
Bathhouse

Sex alley

Showerhouse

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

1950

1969

1993
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Banana

Chocolate

Strawberry

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

In-group purification

Vanilla shame

Coalition
23 Stigma literally refers to…
A sign of pleasure

A mark on the body

A mark on a legal document

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

Subaltern politics

“Official” gay politics

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

Sexy

Harmless

Temporary

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