The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Sociology

Anthropology

English literature
2 Where does Warner teach?
Yale

UCLA

Harvard

Princeton
3 What was the title of Warner’s first book?
The Letters of the Nation

Gay Letters

Print Culture

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

Marxism

Subculture

Counterpublic
5 What Supreme Court case upheld the criminalization of sodomy?
Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas
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?
Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
1999

2001

1989

1990
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?
1980s

1990s

2000s

1970s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?
1980s

2000s

1960s

1970s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1969

1960

1945

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

Clintonism

Reaganism

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

ACT-UP

Gay Liberation Front

Republican Party
15 When was the Defense of Marriage Act passed?
1990

2003

1996

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

2001

1993

1996
17 What is a name for searching for sex?
Lensing

Thumbing

Cruising

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

Gay bar

Bathhouse

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

Showerhouse

Joe's Shack

Sex alley
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1989

1950

1993

1969
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Chocolate

Banana

Vanilla

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

In-group purification

Cruising

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

A mark on the body

A sign of pleasure

A mark on a legal document
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 …
Permanent

Harmless

Temporary

Sexy

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