Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?

Florida

New York

Montana

California
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?

Berkeley

Los Angeles

Santa Cruz

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

The Girogio Agamben Award

The David Easton Award

The Penn Prize

The David Mitchell Award
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?

A professor of math

An Italian official

A U.S. official

A contemporary political theorist
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?

2001

2010

2000

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

John Locke

Aristotle

Shakespeare

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

New York

San Diego

Toronto

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

As art

As kin

As freedom

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

Companies

Lawyers

Terrorism

Nation-states
11 Brown contrasts “transnational” with which of the following?

International

Postcolonial

Global

Postnational
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

International

Colonialism

Transnational

Freedom
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

International

Transnational

Freedom

Colonialism
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Freud

Plato

Locke

Shakespeare
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?

Plato

Bachelard

Locke

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

Extrajudicial

Freedom

Treaties

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

Transnational

Freedom

International

Treaties
18 What does Brown call our world today?

Post-freedom

Post-Marxist

Post-truth

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

Freedom

Personal sovereignty

Marxism

Philosophy
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:

Treaties

Migration

Terrorism

Smuggling
21 Who theorized “nomos”?

Karl Marx

Carl Schmitt

Plato

Socrates
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?

Settler colonialism

Nationality

Freedom

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

Decline of capital

Rise of truth

Decline of truth

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

Freedom

Terrorism

Sovereignty

Economy

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