Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?

New York

Florida

California

Montana
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?

Los Angeles

Berkeley

San Diego

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

The David Easton Award

The Girogio Agamben Award

The David Mitchell Award

The Penn Prize
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?

An Italian official

A U.S. official

A contemporary political theorist

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?

2001

2015

2010

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

Shakespeare

Plato

John Locke

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

New York

Toronto

San Diego

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

As art

As freedom

As enemies

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

Terrorism

Nation-states

Companies

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

International

Global

Postcolonial

Postnational
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?

Freedom

Colonialism

International

Transnational
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?

Freedom

Transnational

International

Colonialism
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?

Shakespeare

Freud

Plato

Locke
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?

Locke

Plato

Rousseau

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

Treaties

Extrajudicial

International

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

Transnational

Freedom

Treaties

International
18 What does Brown call our world today?

Post-Marxist

Post-freedom

Post-truth

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

Personal sovereignty

Freedom

Philosophy

Marxism
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:

Migration

Treaties

Terrorism

Smuggling
21 Who theorized “nomos”?

Karl Marx

Plato

Carl Schmitt

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

New York

Israel

Australia

Columbia
23 What does Brown call Israel a case of?

Locke

Nationality

Freedom

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

Rise of capital

Decline of capital

Decline of truth

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

Economy

Freedom

Terrorism

Sovereignty

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