The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Psychology

Sociology

Anthropology

English literature
2 Where does Warner teach?

Yale

Harvard

Princeton

UCLA
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?

Subculture

Counterpublic

Mattachine

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

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

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

Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

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

Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

Lawrence v. Texas

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

1999

1990

2001

1989
9 With what kind of theory is the book associated?

Postcolonial theory

Marxist theory

Queer theory

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

1970s

2000s

1980s

1990s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?

1970s

1980s

2000s

1960s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?

1960

1945

1969

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

Bushism

Clintonism

McCarthyism

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

Human Rights Campaign

Gay Liberation Front

ACT-UP

Republican Party
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?

1990

1996

1989

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

1993

1989

2001

1996
17 What is a name for searching for sex?

Lensing

Thumbing

Bathhousing

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

Gay bar

Bathhouse

School

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

Showerhouse

Joe's Shack

Sex alley

Bathhouse
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?

1989

1950

1993

1969
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?

Vanilla

Chocolate

Banana

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

Vanilla shame

Cruising

Coalition

In-group purification
23 Stigma literally refers to…

A sign of danger

A mark on the body

A mark on a legal document

A sign of pleasure
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?

Subaltern politics

“Official” gay politics

"Official" history

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

Harmless

Temporary

Permanent

Sexy

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