1. After Alexander VI, how did the Pope continue to strengthen the Church's position?
(a) By selling ecclesiastical offices and annexing land.
(b) By military invasions of other dominions.
(c) By putting monasteries in new dominions.
(d) By gaining more popularity among the Italians.

2. Ending his discussion of Ecclesiastical Dominions, why is Machiavelli so circumspect about the current Pope?
(a) Pope Leo might give Machiavelli a job.
(b) Pope Leo fears Niccolo Machiavelli.
(c) Pope Leo does not support the Medici.
(d) Pope Leo is the uncle of Lorenzo de Medici.

3. How did the Romans maintain control in Capua, Carthage, and Numantia?
(a) They moved the Roman capital to Carthage.
(b) They destroyed them and set up their own system of government.
(c) They made them all Roman citizens with new priviliges.
(d) They allowed them to select government officials from their own citizens.

4. What does Machiavelli say will be an advantage to a prince who lost his dominion by force of arms?
(a) The sympathy of the surrounding dominions.
(b) The tendency of new governments to rely heavily on hereditary princes.
(c) A mishap on the part of the new government.
(d) The money he was able to stash away before being invaded.

5. What example does Machiavelli give of a conquered territory rebelling against 100 years of servitude?
(a) Pisa arising against the Florentines.
(b) Persia throwing off the rule of Alexander the Great.
(c) Egypt going to war with Sparta.
(d) Carthage getting its independence from Rome.