Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?
Montana

Florida

California

New York
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?
San Diego

Santa Cruz

Berkeley

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

The Girogio Agamben Award

The Penn Prize

The David Mitchell 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

Homo Sapiens

Sovereignty Now

Blind Truth
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

Plato

Shakespeare

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

Toronto

San Diego

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

As freedom

As art

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

Lawyers

Companies

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

Postnational

Postcolonial

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

Colonialism

Freedom

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

Freedom

Colonialism

International
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?
Shakespeare

Freud

Locke

Plato
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?
Locke

Bachelard

Rousseau

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

International

Freedom

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

Freedom

International

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

Post-truth

Post-Westphalian

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

Personal sovereignty

Philosophy

Freedom
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:
Treaties

Migration

Terrorism

Smuggling
21 Who theorized “nomos”?
Carl Schmitt

Socrates

Karl Marx

Plato
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?
Freedom

Settler colonialism

Nationality

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?
Freedom

Sovereignty

Terrorism

Economy

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