Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?

California

Florida

Montana

New York
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?

Los Angeles

Berkeley

Santa Cruz

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

The David Easton Award

The Girogio Agamben Award

The Penn Prize

The David Mitchell 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?

Sovereignty Now

Homo Sapiens

Homo Sacer

Blind Truth
6 When was Walled States, Waning Sovereignty written?

2015

2000

2001

2010
7 Who argued for the fundamental importance of land enclosure for sovereignty?

Shakespeare

Aristotle

Plato

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

Toronto

Los Angeles

New York

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

As freedom

As kin

As enemies

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

Terrorism

Lawyers

Nation-states

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

Postcolonial

Global

Postnational

International
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

International

Freedom

Colonialism

Transnational
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

Transnational

International

Freedom

Colonialism
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Locke

Shakespeare

Freud

Plato
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?

Bachelard

Rousseau

Locke

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

Treaties

International

Freedom

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

International

Transnational

Freedom

Treaties
18 What does Brown call our world today?

Post-Marxist

Post-truth

Post-Westphalian

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

Personal sovereignty

Philosophy

Freedom

Marxism
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:

Treaties

Terrorism

Migration

Smuggling
21 Who theorized “nomos”?

Socrates

Carl Schmitt

Plato

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

Columbia

Australia

New York

Israel
23 What does Brown call Israel a case of?

Freedom

Nationality

Settler colonialism

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

Decline of truth

Rise of capital

Rise of truth

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

Freedom

Sovereignty

Economy

Terrorism

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