The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Anthropology

Sociology

Psychology

English literature
2 Where does Warner teach?

Yale

Harvard

Princeton

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

The Letters of the Republic

Gay Letters

Print Culture

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

Marxism

Counterpublic

Subculture

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges
6 What Supreme Court case legalized sodomy?

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade

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

Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?

2001

1999

1990

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

Queer theory

Postcolonial 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?

1980s

1960s

2000s

1970s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?

1969

1945

1960

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

Bushism

McCarthyism

Clintonism

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

Human Rights Campaign

ACT-UP

Republican Party

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

2003

1989

1990

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

1989

1996

1993

2001
17 What is a name for searching for sex?

Cruising

Bathhousing

Lensing

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?

Joe's Shack

Bathhouse

Showerhouse

Sex alley
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?

1993

1950

1989

1969
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?

Chocolate

Strawberry

Banana

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

Cruising

In-group purification

Vanilla shame

Coalition
23 Stigma literally refers to…

A mark on a legal document

A sign of danger

A mark on the body

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

“Official” gay politics

Subaltern politics

"Official" history

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

Temporary

Permanent

Sexy

Harmless

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