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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Machiavelli says that tensions between the nobles and commoners may result in a principality, a republic, or what other condition?
(a) Heavy taxation.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Democracy.

3. What does say the sole prince can do that the prince with barons cannot?
(a) Change his residence whenever he likes.
(b) Move the subjects from place to place.
(c) Shift the rulers of territories at his discretion.
(d) Travel any time he wants.

4. What were the results of Sparta setting up oligarchies in Athens and Thebes after they conquered them?
(a) They held them for a thousand years.
(b) They learned how to retain a possession.
(c) They lost the new territories.
(d) They changed their own forms of government.

5. What factor does Machiavelli suggest makes it easier to rule a new territory?
(a) If the people have never been ruled before.
(b) If the people like the new food introduced into the dominion.
(c) If the new Prince leaves the old rulers in place.
(d) If the people speak the same language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the advantage of the prince selected by the people?

2. What happened when Rome tried to use the same methods the Spartans had used with Greece?

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

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

5. What form of government comes from a long line of ancestors?

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