Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?
Florida

Montana

New York

California
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?
Los Angeles

Santa Cruz

San Diego

Berkeley
3 What award did Walled States, Waning Sovereignty win?
The David Easton Award

The Penn Prize

The David Mitchell Award

The Girogio Agamben Award
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?
A U.S. official

A contemporary political theorist

A professor of math

An Italian official
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?
2015

2001

2010

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

Shakespeare

Plato

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

San Diego

Toronto

New York
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?
Terrorism

Companies

Lawyers

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

Global

Postcolonial

Postnational
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?
Transnational

International

Colonialism

Freedom
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?
International

Freedom

Colonialism

Transnational
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?
Locke

Shakespeare

Plato

Freud
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?
Locke

Plato

Bachelard

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

Treaties

International

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

Freedom

Treaties

Transnational
18 What does Brown call our world today?
Post-freedom

Post-Westphalian

Post-truth

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

Marxism

Freedom

Philosophy
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:
Treaties

Terrorism

Migration

Smuggling
21 Who theorized “nomos”?
Plato

Karl Marx

Carl Schmitt

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

Columbia

New York

Israel
23 What does Brown call Israel a case of?
Settler colonialism

Locke

Nationality

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

Decline of capital

Rise of truth

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

Sovereignty

Freedom

Terrorism

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