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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Machiavelli insist about a Prince who lost his dominion by force?
(a) The people would forget all about him.
(b) He would lose all popularity with the people.
(c) It would be easy to get it back.
(d) He would have to run for his life and never return.

2. What does Machiavelli suggest is the best solution for governing a new territory?
(a) The new Prince should raise taxes.
(b) The new Prince should kill his own military commanders.
(c) The new Prince should live there.
(d) The new Prince should go away and let the people have self-rule.

3. What is Machiavelli offering the Prince Lorenzo de Medici?
(a) Means of mastering in a short time all Machiavelli has learned about governing.
(b) Personal introductions to great men Machiavelli knows.
(c) A large book of rules for new princes to use in governing the people.
(d) The chance to become king of all Italy.

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

5. Cesare Borgia was helped in his drive for power by his father. Who was he?
(a) Pope Alexander IV.
(b) The military head of the Orsini.
(c) Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan.
(d) King Luis XII of France.

Short Answer Questions

1. In acquiring a new dominion, if the prince does not use the force of his own arms, what alternative does Machiavelli suggest?

2. What does Machiavelli suggest is the surest way to govern a conquered territory?

3. What characteristic of a leader can change fortune according to Machiavelli?

4. How does Machiavelli say Agathocles became Prince of Syracuse?

5. Why does Machiavelli say that new territories are harder to govern than hereditary ones?

(see the answer key)

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