Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?

New York

Montana

Florida

California
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?

San Diego

Los Angeles

Santa Cruz

Berkeley
3 What award did Walled States, Waning Sovereignty win?

The Girogio Agamben Award

The Penn Prize

The David Mitchell Award

The David Easton Award
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?

A contemporary political theorist

A professor of math

An Italian official

A U.S. official
5 Which of the following is the name of a book written by Agamben?

Sovereignty Now

Homo Sacer

Blind Truth

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

2010

2015

2001

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

Plato

Aristotle

Shakespeare

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

New York

Los Angeles

Toronto

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

As enemies

As freedom

As art

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

Companies

Lawyers

Nation-states

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

Global

Postnational

Postcolonial

International
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

Transnational

Freedom

International

Colonialism
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

Colonialism

International

Freedom

Transnational
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Plato

Freud

Shakespeare

Locke
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?

Bachelard

Locke

Rousseau

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

International

Freedom

Extrajudicial

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

Treaties

Transnational

International

Freedom
18 What does Brown call our world today?

Post-Westphalian

Post-truth

Post-Marxist

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

Philosophy

Marxism

Freedom

Personal sovereignty
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:

Treaties

Terrorism

Migration

Smuggling
21 Who theorized “nomos”?

Karl Marx

Socrates

Carl Schmitt

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

Columbia

New York

Australia

Israel
23 What does Brown call Israel a case of?

Freedom

Nationality

Settler colonialism

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

Decline of truth

Rise of capital

Rise of truth

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

Sovereignty

Economy

Terrorism

Freedom

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