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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Machiavelli describe the temper (mindset) of the public?
(a) Careless.
(b) Easily maintained.
(c) Ignorant.
(d) Fickle.

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

3. How does Machiavelli think New Dominions were formed?
(a) Through Ability or Accident.
(b) Through democratic elections.
(c) Through Fortune or Ability.
(d) Through War and Pestilence.

4. How does Machiavelli define a new princedom or dominion?
(a) One that comes from political intrigue.
(b) One that kills all the citizens of the old regime.
(c) One that is an entirely new settlement.
(d) One that does not come from a long line of ruling ancestors.

5. Why does Machiavelli not discuss democracies?
(a) None existed at that time.
(b) He considered them inferior.
(c) He rejected the idea outright as a madness of the Greeks.
(d) He called democracy by another name.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Machiavelli insist that hereditary princedoms are more easily maintained?

3. Why does Machiavelli say that new territories are harder to govern than hereditary ones?

4. What does Machiavelli see as the problem with barons?

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

(see the answer key)

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