The Trouble With Normal Quizzes

The Trouble With Normal Quiz #1

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

Sociology

Psychology

Anthropology
2 Where does Warner teach?
UCLA

Harvard

Yale

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

Print Culture

Gay Letters

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

Subculture

Marxism

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

Roe v. Wade

Lawrence v. Texas

Obergefell v. Hodges
6 What Supreme Court case legalized sodomy?
Obergefell v. Hodges

Lawrence v. Texas

Bowers v. Hardwick

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

Bowers v. Hardwick

Roe v. Wade

Lawrence v. Texas
8 When was The Trouble with Normal published?
1989

2001

1990

1999
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?
1970s

1990s

2000s

1980s
11 What decade is associated most strongly with the AIDS epidemic?
1960s

2000s

1980s

1970s
12 When was the Mattachine Society founded?
1950

1945

1960

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

McCarthyism

Clintonism

Reaganism
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?
2003

1996

1990

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

1993

1989

2001
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

School

Bathhouse

Public park
19 What is the name of a commercial space for men to have sex with men?
Joe's Shack

Bathhouse

Sex alley

Showerhouse
20 When were the Stonewall Riots?
1989

1950

1969

1993
21 What is the opposite of BDSM?
Chocolate

Strawberry

Banana

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

In-group purification

Vanilla shame

Cruising
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" history

Subaltern politics

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

Sexy

Temporary

Permanent

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