The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Sociology

English literature

Anthropology
2 Where does Warner teach?
Princeton

Harvard

UCLA

Yale
3 What was the title of Warner’s first book?
The Letters of the Nation

Print Culture

Gay Letters

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

Marxism

Subculture

Counterpublic
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

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

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

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges

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

Queer theory

Marxist theory

Psychoanalysis
10 What decade is associated with the rise of queer theory?
2000s

1990s

1970s

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

1970s

1960s

2000s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1950

1960

1945

1969
13 What is a name for a political witch-hunt?
McCarthyism

Reaganism

Clintonism

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

Republican Party

Human Rights Campaign

Gay Liberation Front
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
1989

1996

1990

2003
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?
1993

1989

1996

2001
17 What is a name for searching for sex?
Cruising

Bathhousing

Lensing

Thumbing
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?
Sex alley

Showerhouse

Joe's Shack

Bathhouse
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1969

1989

1993

1950
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Chocolate

Banana

Vanilla

Strawberry
22 What is the name for scapegoating within a stigmatized identity?
In-group purification

Vanilla shame

Cruising

Coalition
23 Stigma literally refers to…
A mark on the body

A sign of pleasure

A sign of danger

A mark on a legal document
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?
“Official” gay politics

"Official" history

Avant-garde gay politics

Subaltern politics
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …
Sexy

Permanent

Harmless

Temporary

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