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?
Yale

Princeton

UCLA

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

The Letters of the Nation

Gay Letters

Print Culture
4 Which concept is associated with Warner?
Marxism

Subculture

Mattachine

Counterpublic
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?
Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade
7 What Supreme Court case legalized same-sex marriage?
Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

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

1999

1989

2001
9 With what kind of theory is the book associated?
Marxist theory

Postcolonial theory

Queer theory

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

1980s

1970s

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

1980s

1970s

2000s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1950

1945

1969

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

Reaganism

McCarthyism

Clintonism
14 Which organization is associated with the “official” gay rights movement?
Gay Liberation Front

ACT-UP

Human Rights Campaign

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

1989

1996

1990
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?
2001

1996

1989

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

Lensing

Cruising

Thumbing
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?
Joe's Shack

Bathhouse

Showerhouse

Sex alley
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1989

1950

1969

1993
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Strawberry

Chocolate

Banana

Vanilla
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 the body

A sign of pleasure

A sign of danger

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

Subaltern politics

Avant-garde gay politics

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

Harmless

Sexy

Temporary

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