The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Anthropology

Psychology

Sociology
2 Where does Warner teach?
Princeton

UCLA

Harvard

Yale
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?
Counterpublic

Subculture

Mattachine

Marxism
5 What Supreme Court case upheld the criminalization of sodomy?
Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas

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

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

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

Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
1989

1990

2001

1999
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

1980s

2000s

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

2000s

1970s

1980s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1950

1969

1945

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

Clintonism

Bushism

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

Republican Party

Gay Liberation Front

ACT-UP
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
1990

1996

2003

1989
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?
2001

1989

1996

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?
Bathhouse

Gay bar

School

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

Joe's Shack

Bathhouse

Showerhouse
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1969

1989

1993

1950
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Banana

Chocolate

Strawberry

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

In-group purification

Coalition

Cruising
23 Stigma literally refers to…
A sign of danger

A mark on a legal document

A mark on the body

A sign of pleasure
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?
“Official” gay politics

Subaltern politics

Avant-garde gay politics

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

Sexy

Temporary

Permanent

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