Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?

New York

Montana

Florida

California
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?

San Diego

Los Angeles

Santa Cruz

Berkeley
3 What award did Walled States, Waning Sovereignty win?

The Penn Prize

The David Mitchell Award

The David Easton Award

The Girogio Agamben Award
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?

A U.S. official

An Italian official

A contemporary political theorist

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

Homo Sapiens

Sovereignty Now

Blind Truth

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

2010

2001

2000

2015
7 Who argued for the fundamental importance of land enclosure for sovereignty?

John Locke

Aristotle

Plato

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

Los Angeles

New York

Toronto

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

As enemies

As freedom

As art

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

Companies

Nation-states

Lawyers

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

Postcolonial

Global

International

Postnational
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

International

Transnational

Colonialism

Freedom
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

Transnational

International

Colonialism

Freedom
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Freud

Plato

Locke

Shakespeare
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?

Bachelard

Plato

Rousseau

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

International

Freedom

Treaties

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

International

Treaties

Transnational

Freedom
18 What does Brown call our world today?

Post-truth

Post-Westphalian

Post-Marxist

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

Marxism

Freedom

Philosophy

Personal sovereignty
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:

Migration

Treaties

Smuggling

Terrorism
21 Who theorized “nomos”?

Socrates

Karl Marx

Carl Schmitt

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

Columbia

New York

Israel

Australia
23 What does Brown call Israel a case of?

Nationality

Locke

Settler colonialism

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

Decline of truth

Rise of capital

Decline of capital

Rise of truth
25 Which of the following controls the world today?

Terrorism

Economy

Sovereignty

Freedom

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