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?
UCLA

Yale

Princeton

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

Gay Letters

The Letters of the Nation

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

Subculture

Marxism

Counterpublic
5 What Supreme Court case upheld the criminalization of sodomy?
Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade
6 What Supreme Court case legalized sodomy?
Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade

Lawrence v. Texas

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

Obergefell v. Hodges

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade
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

2000s

1980s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?
1980s

1970s

1960s

2000s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1960

1950

1969

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

McCarthyism

Reaganism

Bushism
14 Which organization is associated with the “official” gay rights movement?
ACT-UP

Republican Party

Gay Liberation Front

Human Rights Campaign
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
1989

2003

1996

1990
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?
1989

1993

2001

1996
17 What is a name for searching for sex?
Cruising

Lensing

Thumbing

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

Gay bar

Public park

Bathhouse
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

1950

1969

1989
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Strawberry

Vanilla

Chocolate

Banana
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 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

"Official" history

Subaltern politics

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

Permanent

Harmless

Sexy

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