This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three, The Examples of Rome's Great Men, Sundry Remarks on Strategy, Tactics, New Devices and Discipline, Administrative Posts, Administrative Methods: The Rival Claims of Severity and Good Fellowship.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Machiavelli consider the Roman Caesars to have been a benefit to the Roman Empire?
(a) Because without the power of the Caesars, the empire would have had difficulty avoiding hazards.
(b) The Roman Caesars were skilled in choosing advisers to direct the directions of the Republic.
(c) The Roman Caesars acted ruthlessly when confronted with challenges.
(d) The Roman Caesars had the convenience of acting quickly to confront hazards.

2. In defending his view that Roman Dictators served their city well, what phrase does Machiavelli use to explain how the Caesars absorbed their power?
(a) "It is power that easily acquires a name, not a name power."
(b) "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
(c) "Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil."
(d) "Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."

3. According to Machiavelli, how did the Agrarian Laws violate the foundation of well-ordered Republics?
(a) Agrarian laws allowed the government to decide what was to be grown on land in spite of the expertise of the land owner.
(b) Agrarian laws distributed land from those who had more than the law allowed among plebes rather than among Nobles with which they could enrich themselves.
(c) Agrarian laws allowed Nobles to take land from Plebes with the intent to increase the land's productivity.
(d) Agrarian laws allowed land owners to use their land to help the poor become wealthy.

4. If a cliché could be given to the preface to Book Two of "The Discourses", what would it be?
(a) ."The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history."
(b) "Go where you belong--on the ash heap of history."
(c) "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
(d) "History is written by the winners."

5. What does Machiavelli recommend to a City that is unable to defend itself, but wants to be protected from anyone who would attack it?
(a) Train its citizens to form a strong army.
(b) Make alliances with powerful Cities.
(c) To give itself freely to whomever would defend the city.
(d) Hire mercenaries.