The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Psychology

English literature

Sociology

Anthropology
2 Where does Warner teach?

Yale

UCLA

Princeton

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

The Letters of the Republic

The Letters of the Nation

Gay Letters

Print Culture
4 Which concept is associated with Warner?

Marxism

Mattachine

Subculture

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

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges

Bowers v. Hardwick

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

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?

1989

1990

2001

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

Marxist theory

Postcolonial theory

Psychoanalysis

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

2000s

1980s

1970s

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

2000s

1960s

1970s

1980s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?

1960

1945

1969

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

McCarthyism

Clintonism

Bushism

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

Republican Party

Gay Liberation Front

Human Rights Campaign

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

1989

1990

2003

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

2001

1989

1993

1996
17 What is a name for searching for sex?

Lensing

Cruising

Thumbing

Bathhousing
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?

1950

1989

1993

1969
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?

Banana

Strawberry

Vanilla

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

In-group purification

Cruising

Coalition

Vanilla shame
23 Stigma literally refers to…

A mark on the body

A mark on a legal document

A sign of danger

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

"Official" history

“Official” gay politics

Subaltern politics

Avant-garde gay politics
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …

Permanent

Temporary

Sexy

Harmless

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