The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Sociology

Psychology

Anthropology

English literature
2 Where does Warner teach?

Yale

Harvard

Princeton

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

Gay Letters

Print Culture

The Letters of the Republic

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

Subculture

Counterpublic

Marxism

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

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges

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

Roe v. Wade

Lawrence v. Texas

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

Psychoanalysis

Queer theory

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

1980s

1970s

1990s

2000s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?

2000s

1970s

1980s

1960s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?

1945

1960

1969

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

Clintonism

Reaganism

Bushism

McCarthyism
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?

1996

1990

2003

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

1996

1989

2001

1993
17 What is a name for searching for sex?

Cruising

Lensing

Bathhousing

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

Public park

School

Bathhouse

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

Showerhouse

Bathhouse

Joe's Shack

Sex alley
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?

1950

1993

1989

1969
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?

Chocolate

Vanilla

Strawberry

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

Vanilla shame

In-group purification

Coalition

Cruising
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" history

Avant-garde gay politics

Subaltern politics

“Official” gay politics
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …

Sexy

Harmless

Temporary

Permanent

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