The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Anthropology

Sociology

English literature
2 Where does Warner teach?
Princeton

Yale

UCLA

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

The Letters of the Nation

The Letters of the Republic

Print Culture
4 Which concept is associated with Warner?
Marxism

Mattachine

Subculture

Counterpublic
5 What Supreme Court case upheld the criminalization of sodomy?
Lawrence v. Texas

Obergefell v. Hodges

Bowers v. Hardwick

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

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
2001

1999

1990

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

Psychoanalysis

Marxist theory

Queer theory
10 What decade is associated with the rise of queer theory?
1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?
1970s

1980s

1960s

2000s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1945

1960

1969

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

McCarthyism

Bushism

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

Human Rights Campaign

Republican Party

ACT-UP
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
1990

1989

2003

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?
Thumbing

Lensing

Bathhousing

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?
Sex alley

Bathhouse

Joe's Shack

Showerhouse
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1950

1993

1989

1969
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Strawberry

Chocolate

Vanilla

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

Vanilla shame

In-group purification

Coalition
23 Stigma literally refers to…
A sign of danger

A mark on the body

A sign of pleasure

A mark on a legal document
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?
"Official" history

“Official” gay politics

Subaltern politics

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

Sexy

Temporary

Permanent

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