Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?

New York

Montana

California

Florida
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?

Santa Cruz

Berkeley

Los Angeles

San Diego
3 What award did Walled States, Waning Sovereignty win?

The David Mitchell Award

The Girogio Agamben Award

The Penn Prize

The David Easton Award
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?

A contemporary political theorist

A U.S. official

An Italian official

A professor of math
5 Which of the following is the name of a book written by Agamben?

Sovereignty Now

Blind Truth

Homo Sacer

Homo Sapiens
6 When was Walled States, Waning Sovereignty written?

2001

2015

2010

2000
7 Who argued for the fundamental importance of land enclosure for sovereignty?

Shakespeare

Plato

Aristotle

John Locke
8 Around where did the United States start building a border wall in the 1990s?

San Diego

New York

Los Angeles

Toronto
9 How does Brown recommend we treat the different walling projects today?

As freedom

As enemies

As kin

As art
10 Westphalia is associated with which of the following?

Companies

Terrorism

Nation-states

Lawyers
11 Brown contrasts “transnational” with which of the following?

Postcolonial

International

Global

Postnational
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

Colonialism

Freedom

International

Transnational
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

Transnational

Colonialism

International

Freedom
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Freud

Shakespeare

Locke

Plato
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?

Rousseau

Bachelard

Plato

Locke
16 The “Minutemen” are associated with which of the following concepts?

Treaties

International

Extrajudicial

Freedom
17 Capitalism is an example of which of the following?

Treaties

Freedom

International

Transnational
18 What does Brown call our world today?

Post-freedom

Post-Marxist

Post-Westphalian

Post-truth
19 National sovereignty is sometimes a mirror to which of the following?

Marxism

Philosophy

Freedom

Personal sovereignty
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:

Smuggling

Terrorism

Treaties

Migration
21 Who theorized “nomos”?

Carl Schmitt

Socrates

Plato

Karl Marx
22 Besides the United States, what is the other main case study of Chapter 1?

New York

Columbia

Australia

Israel
23 What does Brown call Israel a case of?

Locke

Freedom

Nationality

Settler colonialism
24 Which of the following is the other side of the coin from the waning of sovereignty?

Rise of truth

Rise of capital

Decline of truth

Decline of capital
25 Which of the following controls the world today?

Terrorism

Economy

Sovereignty

Freedom

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