Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?

California

Florida

Montana

New York
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?

Berkeley

San Diego

Santa Cruz

Los Angeles
3 What award did Walled States, Waning Sovereignty win?

The David Mitchell Award

The David Easton Award

The Penn Prize

The Girogio Agamben Award
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?

A contemporary political theorist

A professor of math

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?

2001

2010

2015

2000
7 Who argued for the fundamental importance of land enclosure for sovereignty?

Plato

Shakespeare

John Locke

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

Toronto

Los Angeles

San Diego

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

As enemies

As freedom

As kin

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

Lawyers

Terrorism

Companies

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

Postnational

Postcolonial

International

Global
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

Transnational

Colonialism

Freedom

International
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

Colonialism

Transnational

International

Freedom
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Plato

Freud

Shakespeare

Locke
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?

Locke

Bachelard

Plato

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

International

Extrajudicial

Treaties

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

Freedom

Transnational

International

Treaties
18 What does Brown call our world today?

Post-truth

Post-freedom

Post-Westphalian

Post-Marxist
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:

Treaties

Migration

Terrorism

Smuggling
21 Who theorized “nomos”?

Carl Schmitt

Plato

Karl Marx

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

New York

Israel

Columbia

Australia
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?

Decline of truth

Rise of capital

Decline of capital

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

Economy

Freedom

Terrorism

Sovereignty

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