The Prince Study Guide

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 concentrated entirely in one ruler
• was shared between the prince and the barons
• belonged to the people, through representative elections
• belonged entirely to the Pope