The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Sociology

English literature

Psychology

Anthropology
2 Where does Warner teach?

Yale

UCLA

Harvard

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

Gay Letters

Print Culture

The Letters of the Nation

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

Mattachine

Marxism

Counterpublic

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

Lawrence v. Texas

Obergefell v. Hodges

Bowers v. Hardwick

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

Lawrence v. Texas

Obergefell v. Hodges

Bowers v. Hardwick

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

Obergefell v. Hodges

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas

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

1990

1999

2001

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

Queer theory

Marxist theory

Psychoanalysis

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

1990s

2000s

1970s

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

1980s

1970s

2000s

1960s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?

1969

1950

1945

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

Bushism

McCarthyism

Reaganism

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

1996

1990

1989
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?

1993

1989

1996

2001
17 What is a name for searching for sex?

Thumbing

Bathhousing

Lensing

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

Public park

School

Gay bar

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?

1969

1950

1989

1993
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?

Strawberry

Banana

Vanilla

Chocolate
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 mark on the body

A sign of danger

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

"Official" history

“Official” gay politics

Avant-garde gay politics

Subaltern politics
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …

Harmless

Sexy

Temporary

Permanent

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