The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Psychology

Anthropology

Sociology
2 Where does Warner teach?
Yale

UCLA

Harvard

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

Gay Letters

The Letters of the Republic

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

Marxism

Subculture

Mattachine
5 What Supreme Court case upheld the criminalization of sodomy?
Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade
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

1989

2001

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

Queer theory

Psychoanalysis

Marxist theory
10 What decade is associated with the rise of queer theory?
2000s

1970s

1980s

1990s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?
2000s

1970s

1980s

1960s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1969

1960

1950

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

McCarthyism

Reaganism

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

Republican Party

ACT-UP

Gay Liberation Front
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
1990

2003

1989

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

1993

1989

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

Lensing

Thumbing

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

Gay bar

School

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

Joe's Shack

Showerhouse

Bathhouse
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1969

1950

1993

1989
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Strawberry

Vanilla

Banana

Chocolate
22 What is the name for scapegoating within a stigmatized identity?
In-group purification

Cruising

Coalition

Vanilla shame
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?
Subaltern politics

“Official” gay politics

"Official" history

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

Temporary

Sexy

Harmless

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