The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Psychology

English literature

Anthropology
2 Where does Warner teach?
Harvard

UCLA

Yale

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

The Letters of the Nation

The Letters of the Republic

Gay Letters
4 Which concept is associated with Warner?
Counterpublic

Marxism

Subculture

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

Obergefell v. Hodges

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas
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

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

Obergefell v. Hodges
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
2001

1989

1999

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

Postcolonial theory

Queer theory

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

1990s

1980s

2000s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?
1980s

1960s

2000s

1970s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1960

1969

1945

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

Bushism

McCarthyism

Clintonism
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

1996

2003

1989
16 When did Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell become policy?
1996

2001

1989

1993
17 What is a name for searching for sex?
Bathhousing

Cruising

Thumbing

Lensing
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?
Showerhouse

Sex alley

Bathhouse

Joe's Shack
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1950

1993

1969

1989
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Banana

Chocolate

Vanilla

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

In-group purification

Cruising

Coalition
23 Stigma literally refers to…
A mark on a legal document

A sign of pleasure

A sign of danger

A mark on the body
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?
Subaltern politics

"Official" history

Avant-garde gay politics

“Official” gay politics
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …
Temporary

Harmless

Permanent

Sexy

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