The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Sociology

Anthropology

Psychology

English literature
2 Where does Warner teach?

Harvard

Princeton

Yale

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

The Letters of the Republic

Gay Letters

Print Culture

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

Subculture

Mattachine

Counterpublic

Marxism
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?

Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick
7 What Supreme Court case legalized same-sex marriage?

Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

Lawrence v. Texas

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

2001

1989

1990

1999
9 With what kind of theory is the book associated?

Marxist theory

Postcolonial theory

Queer theory

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

1990s

1970s

1980s

2000s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?

1980s

2000s

1960s

1970s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?

1969

1945

1960

1950
13 What is a name for a political witch-hunt?

Bushism

Reaganism

Clintonism

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?

2003

1990

1996

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

1993

1996

1989

2001
17 What is a name for searching for sex?

Lensing

Cruising

Thumbing

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

Public park

Gay bar

Bathhouse

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

Bathhouse

Showerhouse

Sex alley

Joe's Shack
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?

1993

1969

1989

1950
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?

Banana

Strawberry

Chocolate

Vanilla
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 sign of danger

A mark on a legal document

A mark on the body
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 …

Temporary

Permanent

Harmless

Sexy

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