Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?

Florida

California

New York

Montana
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?

San Diego

Santa Cruz

Berkeley

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

The Penn Prize

The Girogio Agamben Award

The David Mitchell Award

The David Easton Award
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?

A contemporary political theorist

A professor of math

An Italian official

A U.S. official
5 Which of the following is the name of a book written by Agamben?

Blind Truth

Sovereignty Now

Homo Sapiens

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

2015

2001

2010

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

Aristotle

John Locke

Shakespeare

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

San Diego

New York

Toronto

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

As enemies

As kin

As freedom

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

Terrorism

Lawyers

Companies

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

Global

Postcolonial

International

Postnational
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

Freedom

Colonialism

International

Transnational
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

International

Freedom

Transnational

Colonialism
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Shakespeare

Freud

Plato

Locke
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?

Plato

Rousseau

Bachelard

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

International

Extrajudicial

Treaties

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

Freedom

Treaties

International

Transnational
18 What does Brown call our world today?

Post-truth

Post-Westphalian

Post-freedom

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

Marxism

Philosophy

Freedom

Personal sovereignty
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:

Terrorism

Smuggling

Migration

Treaties
21 Who theorized “nomos”?

Socrates

Plato

Carl Schmitt

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

Israel

New York

Columbia

Australia
23 What does Brown call Israel a case of?

Nationality

Locke

Freedom

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

Decline of capital

Decline of truth

Rise of truth

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

Economy

Sovereignty

Terrorism

Freedom

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