1. Why should a prince keep down factions in his princedom?
(a) People enjoy the debates and work production slows down.
(b) The prince must decide which faction is stronger and play up to them.
(c) The weaker faction will side with an outside enemy, and the stronger will not be able to hold out.
(d) Factions keep him tied up as a judge all the time.

2. How does Machiavelli say Agathocles became Prince of Syracuse?
(a) Assembling the Senate to confer and then having them all killed.
(b) Beheading anyone who opposed him.
(c) Defeating the Carthiginians.
(d) Getting the poor people to support him against the aristocracy.

3. One Princedom, according to Machiavelli, is ruled by a sole prince; the other is by a prince and his barons. What does Machiavelli see as a weakness of the latter?
(a) The prince becomes lazy and leaves everything up to the barons.
(b) If the prince dies the barons all lose their hereditary titles.
(c) The prince does always knows what the barons are doing in their territories.
(d) The barons hold their titles by heredity and not by the favor of the prince, so there is less loyalty.

4. In THE PRINCE, why does Machiavelli deal only with dominions and not republics?
(a) He wrote about republics in another work.
(b) Dominions are much larger than republics.
(c) There were no republics in his day.
(d) He thought dominions were much harder to keep.

5. If a city is well fortified against attack, what will cause the enemy to retreat?
(a) They will retreat because they do not have enough supplies to feed themselves.
(b) They will retreat because they are cold outside the walls of the city.
(c) They will retreat because the fortified city makes them believe there are other armies in the field.
(d) They will retreat because they cannot afford a long seige.