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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Machiavelli say his desire is for Prince Lorenzo?
(a) That he not become a tyrant.
(b) That he recognizes Machiavelli's genius.
(c) That he attain all the merits he deserves.
(d) That he sets up a completely new form of government.
2. What does Machiavelli say was the real cause of Cesare Borgia's ultimate failure?
(a) His ill health after the death of his father.
(b) His opposition from the new Pope after the death of Alexander IV.
(c) His lack of knowledge of what to do after his father's death.
(d) His bad choices of political allies.
3. What does Machiavelli say a new prince must do quickly after gaining a new dominion?
(a) Learn quickly.
(b) Build a new palace.
(c) Hand out money.
(d) Read his book.
4. What does Machiavelli see as the problem with barons?
(a) Barons are known for being cruel and causing trouble.
(b) The people do not understand the difference between a prince and a baron.
(c) Barons can do only what the prince orders.
(d) The people tend to give more aligeance to the barrons than to the prince.
5. What characteristic of a leader can change fortune according to Machiavelli?
(a) The will of the people.
(b) A person's innate ability.
(c) The intervention of God.
(d) Being at the right place and in the right time.
6. Aside from humble beginnings, what does Machiavelli say that Agathocles and Oliverotto have in common?
(a) They were both Italians.
(b) They refused to resort to political assassination.
(c) They knew what they wanted and made a plan to get it.
(d) They got their positions from other princes.
7. What was Machiavelli's method for learning political government?
(a) He formed a college to study the various ideas.
(b) He tried all methods of government himself.
(c) He studied the outstanding rulers of the past.
(d) He relied on his own intuitions.
8. What themes does Machiavelli introduce in Chapter One?
(a) Arms and strategy.
(b) The importance of a republic.
(c) Good fortune and merit.
(d) Colonization and residency.
9. Why does Machiavelli not discuss democracies?
(a) He called democracy by another name.
(b) He rejected the idea outright as a madness of the Greeks.
(c) He considered them inferior.
(d) None existed at that time.
10. Why did Machiavelli say that Italy has been overrun by Charles, plundered by Louis, ravished by Ferdinand, and dishonored by the Swiss?
(a) Because it has had only a mercenary military.
(b) Because it has no central government.
(c) Because the Italians have forgotten the military methods of the Roman Empire.
(d) Because too many people are in charge of the military.
11. How does Machiavelli say that those who help a prince obtain a new princedom may turn against him?
(a) By deciding that they do not need the prince.
(b) By not receiving what was promised to them.
(c) By becoming jealous of his new power.
(d) By going elsewhere to fight new battles.
12. Why does Machiavelli say that new territories are harder to govern than hereditary ones?
(a) Men always think a new government will be worse than before.
(b) Old leaders must be kept alive and included in the new government.
(c) People think the new government will be more of the same.
(d) It is rarely the case that new rulers improve the lives of the conquered.
13. What does Machiavelli suggest may make a hereditary ruler unpopular with his people?
(a) Never changing the way they are accustomed to being ruled.
(b) Outrageous vices.
(c) Staying away from the princedom for long periods of time.
(d) Using his army to gain more territory.
14. What is Machiavelli offering the Prince Lorenzo de Medici?
(a) Means of mastering in a short time all Machiavelli has learned about governing.
(b) The chance to become king of all Italy.
(c) A large book of rules for new princes to use in governing the people.
(d) Personal introductions to great men Machiavelli knows.
15. What are the two types of government identified by Machiavelli?
(a) Kingdom and City State.
(b) State and Dominion.
(c) State and Republic.
(d) City State and Territory.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the custom of Machiavelli's day in approaching a prince?
2. How do the Medici come to power?
3. How does Machiavelli think New Dominions were formed?
4. How did the Romans maintain control in Capua, Carthage, and Numantia?
5. In acquiring a new dominion, if the prince does not use the force of his own arms, what alternative does Machiavelli suggest?
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