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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is more effective than honesty in a prince?
(a) Good looks.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Cunning.

2. What type of principality does Machiavelli claim may be kept without talent or fortune?
(a) Absolute monarchy.
(b) Hereditary.
(c) Monastic.
(d) Ecclesiastical.

3. Does Machiavelli suggest that rising to power through cruelty is always wrong?
(a) He believes that cruelty must continue to be successful.
(b) He says any use of cruelty cannot be justified.
(c) He suggests that there is a proper use of cruelty.
(d) He states that political assassination is not cruelty.

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

5. How does Machiavelli say that the great military leaders of history were so successful?
(a) By studying the arts.
(b) By finding new ways to avoid war.
(c) By relying on hired soldiers from other countries.
(d) By imitating the great men before them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is it that Machiavelli prizes most of his possessions?

3. What does Machiavelli see as an insurmountable chasm?

4. What does Machiavelli say will be an advantage to a prince who lost his dominion by force of arms?

5. When does Machiavelli say a prince should be thinking most about military strategy?

(see the answer key)

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