The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

English literature

Sociology

Anthropology
2 Where does Warner teach?
Yale

UCLA

Princeton

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

The Letters of the Republic

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?
Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

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

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
1999

1989

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?
1980s

1970s

1990s

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

1970s

1980s

1960s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1969

1950

1960

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?
Gay Liberation Front

Republican Party

Human Rights Campaign

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

2003

1989

1996
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?
1993

1989

1996

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

Lensing

Thumbing

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

School

Gay bar

Bathhouse
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?
1950

1993

1989

1969
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Banana

Vanilla

Strawberry

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

Cruising

Coalition

In-group purification
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?
“Official” gay politics

"Official" history

Avant-garde gay politics

Subaltern politics
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …
Sexy

Permanent

Temporary

Harmless

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