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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is more effective than honesty in a prince?

2. How will a prince often be judged by others?

3. What does Machiavelli see as an insurmountable chasm?

4. What does Machiavelli suggest will be the reaction of the people if he is greedy and seizes property and women?

5. Why does Machiavelli insist that a prince need not always be honest?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Machiavelli suggest a prince can be cruel and still be respected?

2. Detail how Machiavelli says Italian princes lose their dominions.

3. Discuss Machiavelli's discourse on flattery.

4. Give examples of leaders who recognized the need for their own loyal troops.

5. Describe the two main reasons that a prince may be secure one day and lose his dominion the next.

6. What does Machiavelli say is the first estimate of a prince as a ruler? Why?

7. How does Machiavelli say a prince should be like a fox and a lion?

8. Why does Machiavelli say that war is the only art expected of a prince?

9. When there is peace outside the principality, what does Machiavelli caution against?

10. Describe Machiavelli's position on fortresses.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the Medici family returning to power and what it meant to Machiavelli.

Essay Topic 2

Write a story about how you imagine Prince Lorenzo de Medici reacted to THE PRINCE.

Essay Topic 3

Using the example of Cesare Borgia, write an essay entitled ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.

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