Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quizzes

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Quiz #1

1 Where is Wendy Brown from?
Florida

New York

California

Montana
2 Where does Wendy Brown teach?
San Diego

Santa Cruz

Berkeley

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

The Girogio Agamben Award

The David Mitchell Award

The David Easton Award
4 Who is Giorgio Agamben?
A U.S. official

A professor of math

An Italian official

A contemporary political theorist
5 Which of the following is the name of a book written by Agamben?
Blind Truth

Sovereignty Now

Homo Sacer

Homo Sapiens
6 When was Walled States, Waning Sovereignty written?
2010

2000

2001

2015
7 Who argued for the fundamental importance of land enclosure for sovereignty?
Plato

John Locke

Shakespeare

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

Los Angeles

New York

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

As freedom

As art

As enemies
10 Westphalia is associated with which of the following?
Nation-states

Lawyers

Terrorism

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

Global

Postnational

International
12 Treaties are associated with which of the following?
Freedom

Transnational

International

Colonialism
13 Terrorism is associated with this of the following?
Transnational

International

Freedom

Colonialism
14 Who theorized defense mechanisms?
Locke

Freud

Shakespeare

Plato
15 Who theorized the emotional aspects of space?
Plato

Bachelard

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?
International

Transnational

Freedom

Treaties
18 What does Brown call our world today?
Post-freedom

Post-Marxist

Post-Westphalian

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

Marxism

Philosophy

Personal sovereignty
20 Each of the following is transnational EXCEPT:
Migration

Terrorism

Smuggling

Treaties
21 Who theorized “nomos”?
Socrates

Carl Schmitt

Plato

Karl Marx
22 Besides the United States, what is the other main case study of Chapter 1?
New York

Columbia

Israel

Australia
23 What does Brown call Israel a case of?
Freedom

Nationality

Locke

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

Decline of truth

Decline of capital

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

Freedom

Sovereignty

Terrorism

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