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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Machiavelli suggest may make a hereditary ruler unpopular with his people?
(a) Outrageous vices.
(b) Staying away from the princedom for long periods of time.
(c) Never changing the way they are accustomed to being ruled.
(d) Using his army to gain more territory.

3. What can deprive a prince of his princedom?
(a) Revolution among the lowest class of subjects.
(b) Extrodinary and irresistable force.
(c) Disagreements within a family of hereditary rulers.
(d) Public elections.

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) The money he was able to stash away before being invaded.
(d) A mishap on the part of the new government.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the irony of the death of Oliverotto of Fermo who came to power by assembling all the leaders for a dinner and then killing them all?

2. Does Machiavelli suggest that rising to power through cruelty is always wrong?

3. What does Machiavelli insist about a Prince who lost his dominion by force?

4. Prior to Charles VIII of France coming to Italy, what was the main focus of the Pope, the Venetians, the King of Naples, the Duke of Milan, and the Florentines?

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

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