Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?

New York

Florida

Montana

California
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?

San Diego

Santa Cruz

Los Angeles

Berkeley
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 professor of math

A contemporary political theorist

A U.S. official

An Italian official
5 Which of the following is the name of a book written by Agamben?

Homo Sapiens

Homo Sacer

Blind Truth

Sovereignty Now
6 When was Walled States, Waning Sovereignty written?

2010

2000

2001

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

Shakespeare

Plato

Aristotle

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

Toronto

San Diego

New York

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

As freedom

As kin

As art

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

Nation-states

Terrorism

Companies

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

Postcolonial

International

Global

Postnational
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

Colonialism

Freedom

Transnational

International
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

Colonialism

Freedom

Transnational

International
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Locke

Plato

Shakespeare

Freud
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?

Plato

Rousseau

Locke

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

International

Treaties

Extrajudicial

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

Transnational

Treaties

Freedom

International
18 What does Brown call our world today?

Post-freedom

Post-truth

Post-Marxist

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

Personal sovereignty

Philosophy

Freedom

Marxism
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:

Migration

Smuggling

Treaties

Terrorism
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?

New York

Columbia

Israel

Australia
23 What does Brown call Israel a case of?

Locke

Freedom

Settler colonialism

Nationality
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?

Terrorism

Freedom

Economy

Sovereignty

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