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

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

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

4. What form of government comes from a long line of ancestors?
(a) Princedoms formed by warring factions.
(b) An elected dynasty.
(c) New princedoms.
(d) A hereditary princedom.

5. How does Machiavelli say that those who help a prince obtain a new princedom may turn against him?
(a) By becoming jealous of his new power.
(b) By going elsewhere to fight new battles.
(c) By not receiving what was promised to them.
(d) By deciding that they do not need the prince.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Machiavelli define a new princedom or dominion?

2. What was Machiavelli's method for learning political government?

3. What can deprive a prince of his princedom?

4. What does Machiavelli see as an inevitable result of changes in government?

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

(see the answer key)

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