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

Berkeley

Santa Cruz

Los Angeles
3 What award did Walled States, Waning Sovereignty win?

The Girogio Agamben Award

The Penn Prize

The David Mitchell Award

The David Easton Award
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?

A U.S. official

A contemporary political theorist

An Italian official

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

Sovereignty Now

Homo Sacer

Blind Truth

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

2000

2010

2001

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

Aristotle

Shakespeare

John Locke

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

San Diego

New York

Los Angeles

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

As kin

As art

As freedom

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

Lawyers

Nation-states

Terrorism

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

Postnational

International

Global

Postcolonial
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

Colonialism

International

Freedom

Transnational
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

Transnational

Colonialism

International

Freedom
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Freud

Shakespeare

Plato

Locke
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

Extrajudicial

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

Treaties

Freedom

International

Transnational
18 What does Brown call our world today?

Post-Marxist

Post-freedom

Post-Westphalian

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:

Migration

Terrorism

Treaties

Smuggling
21 Who theorized “nomos”?

Carl Schmitt

Karl Marx

Plato

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

Australia

Columbia

Israel

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

Freedom

Nationality

Locke

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

Rise of capital

Decline of truth

Rise of truth

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

Sovereignty

Economy

Terrorism

Freedom

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