The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Sociology

English literature

Psychology
2 Where does Warner teach?
Harvard

Yale

Princeton

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

The Letters of the Nation

Print Culture

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

Subculture

Marxism

Counterpublic
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?
Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick
7 What Supreme Court case legalized same-sex marriage?
Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
1989

1999

1990

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

Postcolonial theory

Marxist theory

Queer theory
10 What decade is associated with the rise of queer theory?
1990s

2000s

1980s

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

1980s

2000s

1960s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1960

1950

1969

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

McCarthyism

Reaganism

Bushism
14 Which organization is associated with the “official” gay rights movement?
Human Rights Campaign

ACT-UP

Gay Liberation Front

Republican Party
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
2003

1996

1989

1990
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?
1989

1993

1996

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

Bathhousing

Lensing

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

Public park

School

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

Joe's Shack

Showerhouse

Sex alley
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1969

1989

1993

1950
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Strawberry

Vanilla

Chocolate

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

In-group purification

Cruising

Coalition
23 Stigma literally refers to…
A sign of danger

A sign of pleasure

A mark on a legal document

A mark on the body
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 …
Permanent

Temporary

Sexy

Harmless

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