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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Machiavelli insist about a Prince who lost his dominion by force?
(a) It would be easy to get it back.
(b) He would lose all popularity with the people.
(c) The people would forget all about him.
(d) He would have to run for his life and never return.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Machiavelli say that the successors of Alexander the Great were able to retain power after his untimely death?

3. What example does Machiavelli give of a conquered territory rebelling against 100 years of servitude?

4. What themes does Machiavelli introduce in Chapter One?

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

(see the answer key)

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