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The Prince Quiz 1

  • 1. What was Alexander VI's profession?
    •     Pope
    •     king
    •     soldier
    •     computer programmer

  • 2. What was Machiavelli's first name?
    •     Tom
    •     Niccolo
    •     Lorenzo
    •     Leonardo

  • 3. In what century was The Prince published?
    •     13th
    •     14th
    •     15th
    •     16th

  • 4. Of what city was Machiavelli an inhabitant?
    •     Venice
    •     Pisa
    •     Paris
    •     Florence

  • 5. To whom does Machiavelli address/dedicate The Prince?
    •     Cesare Borgia
    •     Lorenzo de Medici
    •     Agathocles
    •     Alexander VI

  • 6. Who of the following does Machiavelli not cite as an example?
    •     Hiero of Syracuse
    •     Theseus
    •     Napoleon
    •     Cyrus

  • 7. States are of two sorts: republics and
    •     fascist regimes
    •     princely states
    •     anarchist states
    •     nothing else

  • 8. Which king "took Milan quickly and lost it just as quickly"?
    •     King Thomas
    •     King Jezebel
    •     King Louis XII
    •     King Louis XIV

  • 9. "But it is the ______ that makes troubles."
    •     use of a prince's own troops
    •     republic
    •     new state
    •     chocolate ice cream

  • 10. In France, in Machiavelli's time, power
    •     was shared between the prince and the barons
    •     belonged to the people, through representative elections
    •     belonged entirely to the Pope
    •     was concentrated entirely in one ruler

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