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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does morality play in keeping a dominion safe according to Machiavelli?
(a) None whatsoever.
(b) Everything. The Prince must be ruled by God.
(c) Only a little. People barely notice such things.
(d) It is only necessary for hereditary Princedoms.

2. After Alexander VI, how did the Pope continue to strengthen the Church's position?
(a) By putting monasteries in new dominions.
(b) By gaining more popularity among the Italians.
(c) By military invasions of other dominions.
(d) By selling ecclesiastical offices and annexing land.

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

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

5. Before Pope Alexander VI, what prevented the Church from gaining even more power?
(a) The commercial power of the Venetians.
(b) Wars fought between the Colonna, the Orsini and the Pope.
(c) The threat of invasion by France.
(d) The separation of Church and State.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his discussion of the qualities of a good leader, how does Machiavelli depart from the accepted rules?

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

3. What does Machiavelli say is the only art expected of a prince?

4. Why is a reputation for cruelty necessary for a prince?

5. In acquiring a new dominion, if the prince does not use the force of his own arms, what alternative does Machiavelli suggest?

(see the answer key)

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