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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Machiavelli removing from the political thinking during a time when the Roman Catholic Church was still appointing Emperors?
(a) He is removing objections to the combination of church and state.
(b) He is removing constitutional authority.
(c) He is removing God from politics and the power equation.
(d) He is removing political involvement of the church.

2. Why does Machiavelli not discuss democracies?
(a) He considered them inferior.
(b) None existed at that time.
(c) He rejected the idea outright as a madness of the Greeks.
(d) He called democracy by another name.

3. Why does Machiavelli say a hereditary prince is usually more loved by his subjects?
(a) His face is on their coins.
(b) He allows the people to do exactly as they please.
(c) He goes to school with the children of the princedom.
(d) He has less of a chance of giving offense.

4. What role does morality play in keeping a dominion safe according to Machiavelli?
(a) None whatsoever.
(b) Only a little. People barely notice such things.
(c) It is only necessary for hereditary Princedoms.
(d) Everything. The Prince must be ruled by God.

5. What themes does Machiavelli introduce in Chapter One?
(a) Colonization and residency.
(b) Good fortune and merit.
(c) The importance of a republic.
(d) Arms and strategy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Niccolo Machiavelli suddenly out of a job?

2. To whom does Machiavelli compare himself in writing this book?

3. What does Machiavelli suggest may make a hereditary ruler unpopular with his people?

4. How does Machiavelli say that those who help a prince obtain a new princedom may turn against him?

5. What is Machiavelli offering the Prince Lorenzo de Medici?

(see the answer key)

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