The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Sociology

Psychology

English literature
2 Where does Warner teach?
Princeton

UCLA

Yale

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

Gay Letters

The Letters of the Nation

Print Culture
4 Which concept is associated with Warner?
Marxism

Subculture

Mattachine

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade

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

Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
1990

1999

1989

2001
9 With what kind of theory is the book associated?
Postcolonial theory

Marxist theory

Psychoanalysis

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

1990s

1980s

1970s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?
1980s

1960s

2000s

1970s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1945

1969

1960

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

Reaganism

Bushism

Clintonism
14 Which organization is associated with the “official” gay rights movement?
Gay Liberation Front

Republican Party

ACT-UP

Human Rights Campaign
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
2003

1990

1989

1996
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?
1993

1996

1989

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

Lensing

Bathhousing

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

Bathhouse

Showerhouse

Joe's Shack
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1989

1969

1993

1950
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Banana

Strawberry

Chocolate

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

In-group purification

Cruising

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?
Subaltern politics

“Official” gay politics

Avant-garde gay politics

"Official" history
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …
Harmless

Sexy

Temporary

Permanent

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