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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two types of government identified by Machiavelli?
(a) State and Dominion.
(b) Kingdom and City State.
(c) State and Republic.
(d) City State and Territory.

2. What is the Renaissance Italian's view of political misfortune?
(a) Punishment of God for misdeeds.
(b) Perceived weakness on the part of opponents.
(c) Lack of ability to govern.
(d) Something that just happens.

3. How does Machiavelli say that the successors of Alexander the Great were able to retain power after his untimely death?
(a) They did not let the people know that Alexander had died.
(b) The people did not care who ruled them.
(c) The people were so happy to be rid of Darius that they accepted anyone else.
(d) Under his system, governance was easily transferred to his appointed ministers.

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

5. What does Machiavelli suggest may make a hereditary ruler unpopular with his people?
(a) Staying away from the princedom for long periods of time.
(b) Outrageous vices.
(c) Never changing the way they are accustomed to being ruled.
(d) Using his army to gain more territory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristic of a leader can change fortune according to Machiavelli?

2. What is the custom of Machiavelli's day in approaching a prince?

3. How does Machiavelli describe the temper (mindset) of the public?

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

5. One Princedom, according to Machiavelli, is ruled by a sole prince; the other is by a prince and his barons. What does Machiavelli see as a weakness of the latter?

(see the answer key)

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