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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What powerful force does Machiavelli say can efface innovations in government?
(a) Memories.
(b) More and more innovation.
(c) Disdain for the past.
(d) Expectations.

3. What is the best type of mind Machiavelli says is needed for a strong prince?
(a) One that can understand what other men think.
(b) One that can think for himself.
(c) One that takes only a short time to make a decision
(d) One that has no opinions whatsoever.

4. What does the wise prince do to maintain the loyalty of the people?
(a) Does both popular and unpopular actions always in a fair manner.
(b) Perfroms the popular acts himself and delegates unpopular actions to someone else.
(c) Plays with the people and leaves the government up to someone else.
(d) Exasperates the nobles and therefore pleases the people.

5. What themes does Machiavelli introduce in Chapter One?
(a) Good fortune and merit.
(b) Arms and strategy.
(c) Colonization and residency.
(d) The importance of a republic.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Aside from humble beginnings, what does Machiavelli say that Agathocles and Oliverotto have in common?

5. Aside from granting favors to his subjects during a siege, what does Machiavelli suggest a wise prince might do?

(see the answer key)

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