Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?
Montana

Florida

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 Penn Prize

The Girogio Agamben Award

The David Easton Award
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?
A U.S. official

A professor of math

An Italian official

A contemporary political theorist
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?
2000

2001

2010

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

Shakespeare

Plato

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

New York

Los Angeles

San Diego
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?
Lawyers

Companies

Terrorism

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

Global

Postnational

International
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?
Freedom

Transnational

Colonialism

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

Transnational

Colonialism

International
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?
Shakespeare

Freud

Plato

Locke
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?
Locke

Plato

Bachelard

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

International

Extrajudicial

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

International

Freedom

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

Post-Westphalian

Post-Marxist

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

Personal sovereignty

Freedom

Marxism
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:
Smuggling

Migration

Treaties

Terrorism
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?
Australia

Columbia

Israel

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

Nationality

Freedom

Locke
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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