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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Cesare Borgia's greatest mistake according to Machiavelli?
(a) Allowing the election of Pope Julius II.
(b) Distancing himself from the French court.
(c) Failure to get medical attention soon enough.
(d) Helping the Spanish cardinals elect a Spanish Pope.

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

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

4. What example does Machiavelli give of a dominion that is a limb of a larger one?
(a) The Medici as part of the Borgia dominions.
(b) The King of Naples as part of the dominions of Spain.
(c) The Prince of Venice as part of the dominions of France.
(d) The Holy Roman Empire.

5. Machiavelli says some new princes may gain their new states either in exchange for money or as a favor. What other means does he point out for gaining a state?
(a) Holding many public meetings.
(b) Bribing the military.
(c) Promising to lower taxes.
(d) Making themselves popular with the people.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Machiavelli's example of rule by a sole prince?

3. How does Machiavelli define a new princedom or dominion?

4. In acquiring a new dominion, if the prince does not use the force of his own arms, what alternative does Machiavelli suggest?

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

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