The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

English literature

Sociology

Psychology

Anthropology
2 Where does Warner teach?

Harvard

Yale

UCLA

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

Gay Letters

The Letters of the Republic

Print Culture

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

Counterpublic

Subculture

Marxism

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

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick
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?

1999

2001

1989

1990
9 With what kind of theory is the book associated?

Psychoanalysis

Queer theory

Marxist theory

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

1980s

1990s

2000s

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

1970s

1980s

1960s

2000s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?

1950

1969

1960

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

Reaganism

Clintonism

Bushism

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

Republican Party

ACT-UP

Gay Liberation Front

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

2003

1989

1990

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

2001

1996

1993

1989
17 What is a name for searching for sex?

Thumbing

Lensing

Cruising

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

School

Gay bar

Bathhouse

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

Bathhouse

Joe's Shack

Sex alley

Showerhouse
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?

1950

1993

1989

1969
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

Vanilla shame

Coalition
23 Stigma literally refers to…

A sign of pleasure

A mark on a legal document

A sign of danger

A mark on the body
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?

Avant-garde gay politics

“Official” gay politics

"Official" history

Subaltern politics
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …

Harmless

Permanent

Temporary

Sexy

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