The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Anthropology

English literature

Sociology
2 Where does Warner teach?
Princeton

Harvard

Yale

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

Print Culture

The Letters of the Nation

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

Marxism

Subculture

Mattachine
5 What Supreme Court case upheld the criminalization of sodomy?
Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade

Obergefell v. Hodges

Bowers v. Hardwick
6 What Supreme Court case legalized sodomy?
Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas

Roe v. Wade
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
1989

2001

1999

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

Psychoanalysis

Queer theory

Marxist theory
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?
1980s

1970s

2000s

1960s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1960

1945

1969

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

Bushism

McCarthyism

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

Human Rights Campaign

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?
2001

1993

1996

1989
17 What is a name for searching for sex?
Lensing

Thumbing

Bathhousing

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

Bathhouse

School

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

Joe's Shack

Bathhouse

Sex alley
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1950

1993

1989

1969
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Vanilla

Chocolate

Banana

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

In-group purification

Coalition

Cruising
23 Stigma literally refers to…
A sign of pleasure

A sign of danger

A mark on a legal document

A mark on the body
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?
"Official" history

Subaltern politics

“Official” gay politics

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

Sexy

Temporary

Harmless

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