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?

Berkeley

San Diego

Los Angeles

Santa Cruz
3 What award did Walled States, Waning Sovereignty win?

The David Mitchell Award

The David Easton Award

The Penn Prize

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?

Homo Sacer

Sovereignty Now

Blind Truth

Homo Sapiens
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?

Los Angeles

Toronto

San Diego

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

As art

As enemies

As freedom

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

Companies

Terrorism

Nation-states

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

Postnational

Global

Postcolonial

International
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

Transnational

Freedom

Colonialism

International
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

Transnational

International

Colonialism

Freedom
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Locke

Shakespeare

Freud

Plato
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?

Locke

Plato

Rousseau

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

Extrajudicial

Freedom

International

Treaties
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-Westphalian

Post-freedom

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

Marxism

Freedom

Personal sovereignty

Philosophy
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:

Treaties

Migration

Smuggling

Terrorism
21 Who theorized “nomos”?

Plato

Karl Marx

Socrates

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

Israel

Australia

Columbia

New York
23 What does Brown call Israel a case of?

Nationality

Settler colonialism

Freedom

Locke
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 capital

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

Economy

Sovereignty

Terrorism

Freedom

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