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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why should a new prince not disarm his people?
(a) Disarmed people cannot protect their prince.
(b) Having arms is a basic human right.
(c) It shows that he either distrusts the people or fears them.
(d) It gives the people added duties and importance.

2. How does Machiavelli define auxiliary forces?
(a) Extra manpower that may be called to active duty during a war.
(b) Women mercenaries who fight along side of men.
(c) Those borrowed from other principalities to wage war.
(d) The best insurance a prince has for his safety.

3. What is it that a prince cannot control among his subjects?
(a) Their cooperation.
(b) Their taxation.
(c) Their fear.
(d) Their love.

4. What was Cesare Borgia's greatest mistake according to Machiavelli?
(a) Allowing the election of Pope Julius II.
(b) Failure to get medical attention soon enough.
(c) Distancing himself from the French court.
(d) Helping the Spanish cardinals elect a Spanish Pope.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does morality play in keeping a dominion safe according to Machiavelli?

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

3. What does Machiavelli insist about a Prince who lost his dominion by force?

4. What is it that Machiavelli refrains from doing in his book?

5. Who does Machiavelli cite as an example of generosity that ended badly?

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