This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, The Growth of Rome's Empire, Preface, Methods of Expansion, Colonization and War: Its Causes and Cost, Diplomacy and War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Machiavelli cite as the method that Rome used to maintain its freedom?
(a) It made frequent use of elections to allow the citizens to influence government.
(b) It continually sent soldiers to expand its empire.
(c) It made public displays of punishments for lawbreakers.
(d) It continued to make new laws and new institutions to confront corruption.

2. According to Machiavelli, what caused the Roman Republic to form?
(a) Trade agreements between cities with resources and cities with technologies.
(b) Political rivalries between powerful generals.
(c) Economic agreements between fertile cities.
(d) Class warfare between the patricians and the plebes.

3. What did Machiavelli establish as the cycle of governing forms?
(a) Monarchy (principality) to aristocracy to oligarchy to democracy to monarchy.
(b) Aristocracy to republic to oligarchy to monarchy to aristocracy.
(c) Democracy to republic go aristocracy to oligarchy to anarchy to democracy.
(d) Anarchy to democracy to oligarchy to monarchy to anarchy.

4. From what did Machiavelli develop the information that he wrote into "The Discourses"?
(a) From interviews with political thinkers of the day.
(b) From his world travels to study governments in other cultures.
(c) From long experience and continuous study of worldly affairs.
(d) From research that he did in the many libraries throughout the former Roman Empire.

5. What are two reasons Machiavelli gives for foreign forces building a city?
(a) To offer people in other lands the benefits of the existing system and to make their abilities and resources for universally beneficial.
(b) To spread the culture of the homeland and use resources for financial development.
(c) To relieve existing towns of excessive inhabitants and for the defense of the country from which the forces come.
(d) To exercise power over enemies and expand the power of an established system.