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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Machiavelli say Agathocles became Prince of Syracuse?
(a) Assembling the Senate to confer and then having them all killed.
(b) Getting the poor people to support him against the aristocracy.
(c) Beheading anyone who opposed him.
(d) Defeating the Carthiginians.

2. What example does Machiavelli give of a prince who regained power after the opposition of the Venetians and Pope Julius?
(a) The Duke of Milan.
(b) The Duke of Ferrara.
(c) The Duke of Genoa.
(d) The Duke of Earle.

3. Who was responsible for weakening the power of Colonna and Orsini, the barons of Rome?
(a) Remiro d'Orco.
(b) Cesare Borgia.
(c) King Louis VII.
(d) Charles VIII of France.

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

5. What does Machiavelli see as an inevitable result of changes in government?
(a) Growth of the dominion by annexation.
(b) Pleasure of the subjects who like to see a lot of changes.
(c) Better conditions for the subjects of a dominion.
(d) A dovetailing of more and more change.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Machiavelli suggest may make a hereditary ruler unpopular with his people?

2. What does Machiavelli suggest makes for peace in a dominion?

3. What does Machiavelli say will be an advantage to a prince who lost his dominion by force of arms?

4. After Alexander VI, how did the Pope continue to strengthen the Church's position?

5. What can deprive a prince of his princedom?

(see the answer key)

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