Mod A

Question 1

Mach 1 1

Answer 1

If you always want to play the good man … you’ll end up badly

Aphorism

Question 2

Mach 1 2

Answer 2

A prince who wants to keep his authority just learn how to not be good

Conclusive maxim

Question 3

Mach 1 3

Answer 3

There’ll always be something … that looks morally wrong but will bring security and success

Sibilant

Question 4

Mach 1 4

Answer 4

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious

Imperative

Question 5

JC 1 1

Answer 5

With himself at war

Metaphor

Question 6

JC 1 2

Answer 6

O Rome, I make thee promise

Apostrophe

Question 7

JC 1 3

Answer 7

Th’abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power

Question 8

JC 1 4

Answer 8

Let’s be sacrifices, but not butchers

Sibilance

Alliteration

Question 9

JC 1 5

Answer 9

This was the noblest Roman of them all

Superlative

Question 10

Mach 2 1

Answer 10

You must either pamper people or destroy them

Alliteration

Question 11

Mach 2 2

Answer 11

A man who becomes king with the support of the people … must keep those people on his side

Imperative

Question 12

Mach 2 3

Answer 12

So long as you’re always mentally prepared to change as soon as your interests are threatened

Question 13

Mach 2 4

Answer 13

The ruler who fails does so because he is out of step with circumstances

Question 14

JC 2 1

Answer 14

He sits high in all the peoples hearts

Metaphor

Question 15

JC 2 2

Answer 15

Hear me for my cause and be silent that you may hear

Epanalepsis

Question 16

HC 2 3

Answer 16

And Brutus is in honourable man

Repetition

Paradiastole

Question 17

JC 2 4

Answer 17

The ass
Either led or driven as we point the way

Metaphor

Question 18

JC 2 5

Answer 18

But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees and leave them honeyless

Metaphor

Question 19

Mach C 1

Answer 19

Renaissance Humanism

Providing a radical, secular interpretation

Question 20

JC C 1

Answer 20

Turbulent and uncertain state of post Reformation Elizabethan England

Question 21

Mach C 2

Answer 21

Venal papacy of the 1500s

Question 22

Mach C 3

Answer 22

Study of Lucretius’ Epicurean ‘De rerum natura’

Question 23

JC C 2

Answer 23

Essays of Montaigne

Question 24

JC C 3

Answer 24

Stoicism of Brutus

Fascination with classic thought in the Renaissance

Question 25

Mach C 4

Answer 25

Florentine Citizen Army in 1506

Question 26

Mach C 5

Answer 26

Florentine diplomat

Understood the vagaries of politics in a time of conflict between city states

Question 27

JC C 4

Answer 27

Collapse of Wyatt’s rebellion after Queen Mary consolidated people’s support

Question 28

JC C 5

Answer 28

Elizabeth’s success in maintaining power in face of

• Catholic agitation
• factionalism spurred on by lack of an heir