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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Machiavelli suggest is the surest way to govern a conquered territory?
(a) Destroy its civil and political systems first.
(b) Start paying higher salaries to bureaucrats.
(c) Keep the old system in place.
(d) Declare many holidays.

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

3. What type of principality does Machiavelli claim may be kept without talent or fortune?
(a) Ecclesiastical.
(b) Absolute monarchy.
(c) Monastic.
(d) Hereditary.

4. What were the results of Sparta setting up oligarchies in Athens and Thebes after they conquered them?
(a) They lost the new territories.
(b) They held them for a thousand years.
(c) They changed their own forms of government.
(d) They learned how to retain a possession.

5. What role does morality play in keeping a dominion safe according to Machiavelli?
(a) It is only necessary for hereditary Princedoms.
(b) Only a little. People barely notice such things.
(c) Everything. The Prince must be ruled by God.
(d) None whatsoever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Machiavelli give of a prince who regained power after the opposition of the Venetians and Pope Julius?

2. How did the Romans maintain control in Capua, Carthage, and Numantia?

3. Before Pope Alexander VI, what prevented the Church from gaining even more power?

4. What advantage does Machiavelli point out for Princes who rule hereditary dominions?

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

(see the answer key)

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