The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Anthropology

English literature

Psychology

Sociology
2 Where does Warner teach?

Yale

Princeton

UCLA

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

The Letters of the Nation

Gay Letters

The Letters of the Republic

Print Culture
4 Which concept is associated with Warner?

Mattachine

Subculture

Counterpublic

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

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

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

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

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

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?

Marxist theory

Postcolonial theory

Queer theory

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

2000s

1980s

1990s

1970s
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

Reaganism

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

ACT-UP

Human Rights Campaign

Gay Liberation Front

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

2003

1996

1990

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

2001

1996

1993

1989
17 What is a name for searching for sex?

Thumbing

Bathhousing

Lensing

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

Bathhouse

Gay bar

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?

1993

1950

1969

1989
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?

Banana

Chocolate

Vanilla

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

Cruising

Coalition

In-group purification

Vanilla shame
23 Stigma literally refers to…

A mark on the body

A mark on a legal document

A sign of pleasure

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

"Official" history

“Official” gay politics

Avant-garde gay politics

Subaltern politics
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …

Sexy

Permanent

Harmless

Temporary

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