The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Anthropology

Sociology

Psychology
2 Where does Warner teach?
Yale

Princeton

Harvard

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

The Letters of the Republic

The Letters of the Nation

Gay Letters
4 Which concept is associated with Warner?
Counterpublic

Subculture

Mattachine

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

Lawrence v. Texas

Obergefell v. Hodges

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas

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

Obergefell v. Hodges

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
2001

1999

1989

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

Marxist theory

Postcolonial theory

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

2000s

1980s

1990s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?
1970s

1960s

1980s

2000s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1960

1945

1950

1969
13 What is a name for a political witch-hunt?
Clintonism

McCarthyism

Reaganism

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

Republican Party

ACT-UP

Human Rights Campaign
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
1990

1996

1989

2003
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?
1993

1989

2001

1996
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

Public park

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

Showerhouse

Bathhouse

Joe's Shack
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1993

1989

1969

1950
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Chocolate

Banana

Vanilla

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

Cruising

In-group purification

Vanilla shame
23 Stigma literally refers to…
A sign of pleasure

A mark on a legal document

A sign of danger

A mark on the body
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?
“Official” gay politics

Subaltern politics

Avant-garde gay politics

"Official" history
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …
Sexy

Permanent

Temporary

Harmless

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