The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

English literature

Anthropology

Psychology

Sociology
2 Where does Warner teach?

Princeton

UCLA

Yale

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

Gay Letters

The Letters of the Republic

The Letters of the Nation

Print Culture
4 Which concept is associated with Warner?

Marxism

Counterpublic

Subculture

Mattachine
5 What Supreme Court case upheld the criminalization of sodomy?

Obergefell v. Hodges

Roe v. Wade

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. Texas
6 What Supreme Court case legalized sodomy?

Roe v. Wade

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

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?

1990

1999

2001

1989
9 With what kind of theory is the book associated?

Postcolonial theory

Marxist theory

Psychoanalysis

Queer theory
10 What decade is associated with the rise of queer theory?

2000s

1970s

1990s

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

1980s

1970s

2000s

1960s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?

1945

1969

1960

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

McCarthyism

Reaganism

Bushism

Clintonism
14 Which organization is associated with the “official” gay rights movement?

Human Rights Campaign

Gay Liberation Front

Republican Party

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?

1989

2001

1996

1993
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

Joe's Shack

Showerhouse

Sex alley
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?

1969

1989

1993

1950
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?

Banana

Chocolate

Strawberry

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

In-group purification

Cruising

Coalition

Vanilla shame
23 Stigma literally refers to…

A sign of danger

A mark on a legal document

A mark on the body

A sign of pleasure
24 Queer politics is opposed to which of the following?

Avant-garde gay politics

“Official” gay politics

"Official" history

Subaltern politics
25 Unlike shame, stigma is more …

Temporary

Harmless

Sexy

Permanent

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