The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Psychology

English literature

Sociology

Anthropology
2 Where does Warner teach?

Harvard

Princeton

UCLA

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

Print Culture

The Letters of the Republic

The Letters of the Nation

Gay Letters
4 Which concept is associated with Warner?

Mattachine

Marxism

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

Obergefell v. Hodges

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade

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

1999

1989

1990

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

Postcolonial theory

Psychoanalysis

Queer theory

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

1970s

1990s

2000s

1980s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?

1980s

2000s

1960s

1970s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?

1950

1960

1945

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

Clintonism

Reaganism

Bushism

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

Gay Liberation Front

ACT-UP

Republican Party

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

1996

1989

1990

2003
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?

1993

2001

1989

1996
17 What is a name for searching for sex?

Thumbing

Lensing

Bathhousing

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

Gay bar

Bathhouse

School

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

Showerhouse

Joe's Shack

Bathhouse

Sex alley
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?

1989

1950

1993

1969
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?

Banana

Chocolate

Vanilla

Strawberry
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 danger

A mark on the body

A mark on a legal document

A sign of pleasure
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?

Subaltern politics

“Official” gay politics

"Official" history

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

Sexy

Harmless

Temporary

Permanent

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