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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Machiavelli removing from the political thinking during a time when the Roman Catholic Church was still appointing Emperors?
(a) He is removing political involvement of the church.
(b) He is removing objections to the combination of church and state.
(c) He is removing constitutional authority.
(d) He is removing God from politics and the power equation.

3. Machiavelli gives the example of how Cesare Borgia used Minister Remiro d'Orco in his plan to rule Romagna. After d'Orco brought the territory under control, what does Machiavelli say Cesare Borgia did to get the loyalty of the people?
(a) He retired d'Orco and gave him a lifetime pension.
(b) He told the people that d'Orco was acting on his orders.
(c) He gave d'Orco the power to kill anyone who opposed him.
(d) He executed d'Orco to make the people love and trust him.

4. How does Machiavelli say Agathocles became Prince of Syracuse?
(a) Defeating the Carthiginians.
(b) Assembling the Senate to confer and then having them all killed.
(c) Getting the poor people to support him against the aristocracy.
(d) Beheading anyone who opposed him.

5. To whom does Machiavelli compare himself in writing this book?
(a) A chemist.
(b) A cartographer.
(c) A choreographer.
(d) A professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What powerful force does Machiavelli say can efface innovations in government?

2. How can a prince deal with the people when they see their lands burning outside the city walls?

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

4. 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?

5. What ancient example does Machiavelli use to illustrate the rise to power through criminal actions?

(see the answer key)

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