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?
UCLA

Yale

Princeton

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

The Letters of the Nation

Gay Letters

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

Mattachine

Counterpublic

Subculture
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

Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

Lawrence v. Texas
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?
2001

1999

1989

1990
9 With what kind of theory is the book associated?
Queer theory

Psychoanalysis

Marxist theory

Postcolonial 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?
1980s

1960s

1970s

2000s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1945

1950

1969

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

McCarthyism

Clintonism

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

Human Rights Campaign

Republican Party

ACT-UP
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
1996

1990

2003

1989
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?
1996

2001

1989

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

Thumbing

Bathhousing

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

Public park

Gay bar

Bathhouse
19 What is the name of a commercial space for men to have sex with men?
Joe's Shack

Showerhouse

Bathhouse

Sex alley
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1993

1969

1950

1989
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Vanilla

Banana

Strawberry

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

Coalition

Cruising

In-group purification
23 Stigma literally refers to…
A sign of danger

A mark on the body

A sign of pleasure

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

Subaltern politics

“Official” gay politics

"Official" history
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …
Harmless

Sexy

Temporary

Permanent

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