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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three, The Example of Rome's Great Men, Internal Security, Equanimity, Insurrection, Confidence, Electioneering, and the Tendering of Advice, Advice to Generals in the Field.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Machiavelli predict will come of corrupted Republics if they do not take the important step of extending its life?
(a) The corruption will kill the body.
(b) They will fall victim to a Tyrant.
(c) They will become ineffective and subject to the rule of a stronger Republic.
(d) They will break apart into new Republics

2. What does Machiavelli consider necessary to take control over a Republic to install a bad form of government over it?
(a) Leaders who are irresolute in their decisions.
(b) Bad Captains.
(c) Bad administrators.
(d) People corrupted by the times.

3. What was an example from Roman history that Machiavelli used to suggest the Plebes possesses greater wisdom than Nobles?
(a) A time when the Plebes could have chosen all Plebes for four Tribunes, chose, instead, four Nobles because they recognized the weaknesses of Plebes filling those offices.
(b) The willingness of the Plebes to go to war for the glory of Rome.
(c) The failed attempt of the Nobles to put Plebes of ill-repute to selection for Tribunes.
(d) The Magistrates decision to delay battle against the Samnites.

4. What is a Prince as Machiavelli uses the term?
(a) A hereditary noble.
(b) A monarch over a sovereign system of government and territory.
(c) An underling to the ruling authority.
(d) A dispatched bureaucrat that carries out orders over a territory.

5. What is an obvious counterpoint to Machiavelli's assertion to the benefits of the power of the Caesars to the Roman Empire?
(a) Without the Caesars, provinces of the Empire would have moved to avoid hazards.
(b) If the Nobles of Rome had not sought to possess distant provinces, there would have been no need for Caesars.
(c) The cost of Empire caused hazards to gather domestically as well as throughout the Empire.
(d) Without the empire is it possible that the hazards the empire faced would not have materialized.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase could summarize what Livius' details as qualifications for an effective Captain.

2. When does Machiavelli advise Captains to try new things?

3. What does Machiavelli claim causes unity in a Republic?

4. What does Machiavelli believe to the nature of men that causes them to either fight from ambition or from necessity?

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?

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