Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?

California

Montana

New York

Florida
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?

Santa Cruz

Los Angeles

Berkeley

San Diego
3 What award did Walled States, Waning Sovereignty win?

The Penn Prize

The David Mitchell Award

The David Easton Award

The Girogio Agamben Award
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?

A U.S. official

An Italian official

A contemporary political theorist

A professor of math
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?

2010

2015

2000

2001
7 Who argued for the fundamental importance of land enclosure for sovereignty?

Shakespeare

Aristotle

John Locke

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

New York

San Diego

Los Angeles

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

As kin

As art

As enemies

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

Terrorism

Companies

Nation-states

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

International

Postnational

Global

Postcolonial
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

Transnational

International

Freedom

Colonialism
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

Colonialism

Transnational

International

Freedom
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Plato

Shakespeare

Freud

Locke
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?

Rousseau

Locke

Plato

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?

Treaties

Transnational

Freedom

International
18 What does Brown call our world today?

Post-freedom

Post-Westphalian

Post-Marxist

Post-truth
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:

Treaties

Terrorism

Migration

Smuggling
21 Who theorized “nomos”?

Plato

Carl Schmitt

Karl Marx

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

Israel

Columbia

Australia

New York
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 capital

Rise of truth

Decline of truth

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

Freedom

Terrorism

Sovereignty

Economy

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