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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can deprive a prince of his princedom?
(a) Disagreements within a family of hereditary rulers.
(b) Extrodinary and irresistable force.
(c) Revolution among the lowest class of subjects.
(d) Public elections.

2. To whom does Machiavelli compare himself in writing this book?
(a) A cartographer.
(b) A chemist.
(c) A choreographer.
(d) A professor.

3. What factor does Machiavelli suggest makes it easier to rule a new territory?
(a) If the people have never been ruled before.
(b) If the people like the new food introduced into the dominion.
(c) If the new Prince leaves the old rulers in place.
(d) If the people speak the same language.

4. What example does Machiavelli cite as a wholly new princedom?
(a) The new Kingdom of Naples.
(b) Venice under the Doge.
(c) Milan under Francesco Sforza.
(d) The Kingdom of Spain.

5. What does Machiavelli suggest makes for peace in a dominion?
(a) A brilliant and vocal Prince.
(b) A Prince who knows how to hide his bad habits.
(c) Each day being the same as the day before.
(d) A Prince who knows how to keep the people in line by force.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Machiavelli refrains from doing in his book?

2. The next best way to rule a new territory, according to Machiavelli, is to establish a colony. Why?

3. What is the custom of Machiavelli's day in approaching a prince?

4. What form of government comes from a long line of ancestors?

5. In THE PRINCE, why does Machiavelli deal only with dominions and not republics?

(see the answer key)

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