The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

English literature

Sociology

Anthropology

Psychology
2 Where does Warner teach?

Princeton

Yale

UCLA

Harvard
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

Counterpublic

Subculture

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

Lawrence v. Texas
6 What Supreme Court case legalized sodomy?

Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

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

Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade

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

2001

1999

1989

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

Postcolonial theory

Psychoanalysis

Marxist theory

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

1990s

1980s

2000s

1970s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?

1970s

1980s

2000s

1960s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?

1969

1950

1960

1945
13 What is a name for a political witch-hunt?

Clintonism

McCarthyism

Bushism

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

Human Rights Campaign

Republican Party

ACT-UP

Gay Liberation Front
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?

1989

1996

2003

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

1993

1996

2001

1989
17 What is a name for searching for sex?

Bathhousing

Lensing

Thumbing

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

Gay bar

Bathhouse

Public park

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

Showerhouse

Bathhouse

Joe's Shack

Sex alley
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?

1993

1969

1950

1989
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?

Banana

Chocolate

Vanilla

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

Vanilla shame

Coalition

Cruising

In-group purification
23 Stigma literally refers to…

A mark on the body

A sign of danger

A mark on a legal document

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

“Official” gay politics

Avant-garde gay politics

"Official" history

Subaltern politics
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …

Temporary

Sexy

Permanent

Harmless

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