Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?

Florida

California

Montana

New York
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?

Los Angeles

San Diego

Berkeley

Santa Cruz
3 What award did Walled States, Waning Sovereignty win?

The Penn Prize

The David Mitchell Award

The Girogio Agamben Award

The David Easton Award
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?

A contemporary political theorist

A U.S. official

An Italian official

A professor of math
5 Which of the following is the name of a book written by Agamben?

Homo Sacer

Sovereignty Now

Blind Truth

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

2010

2000

2015

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

Aristotle

Shakespeare

Plato

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

San Diego

New York

Los Angeles

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

As kin

As freedom

As enemies

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

Nation-states

Companies

Terrorism

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

Postnational

Global

International

Postcolonial
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

Colonialism

Freedom

Transnational

International
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

International

Transnational

Freedom

Colonialism
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Locke

Plato

Freud

Shakespeare
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?

Bachelard

Plato

Rousseau

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

Freedom

Treaties

International

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

Transnational

Treaties

Freedom

International
18 What does Brown call our world today?

Post-Marxist

Post-freedom

Post-Westphalian

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

Philosophy

Freedom

Marxism

Personal sovereignty
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:

Treaties

Terrorism

Migration

Smuggling
21 Who theorized “nomos”?

Plato

Socrates

Karl Marx

Carl Schmitt
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?

Settler colonialism

Nationality

Locke

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

Decline of capital

Rise of truth

Decline of truth

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

Economy

Terrorism

Sovereignty

Freedom

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