The Discourses Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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The Discourses Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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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 are reasons Machiavelli cited for a group of people leaving their native country to seek a new home?
(a) Family strife and lack of work.
(b) Racial conflict and economic injustice.
(c) Pestilence, famine or war.
(d) Overcrowding and social unrest.

2. What does Machiavelli believe to the nature of men that causes them to either fight from ambition or from necessity?
(a) They fight so they can have the power to deliver liberty to themselves and the City.
(b) They are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything.
(c) Men that choose to fight always fight for the glory of the City.
(d) Men that choose to fight always fight for personal benefit.

3. What does Machiavelli believe inspired the expansion of the Roman Empire?
(a) Harsh Captains guiding the military.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Aggression and murder.
(d) Keeping Citizens in poverty.

4. What was the inspiration for Machiavelli's "The Discourses"?
(a) Livy's account of the history of Rome written around 25 B.C.
(b) Machiavelli's fascination for power.
(c) Machiavelli's interest in forms of government.
(d) Machiavelli's desire to guide politicians to serve the public needs.

5. What do fertile areas offer to those who settle there according to Machiavelli?
(a) The ability to affect the economy of sterile areas.
(b) Resources that will sustain a growing population.
(c) The means by which a city can grow and have the ability to defend themselves.
(d) Raw materials that can be sent to sterile areas for manufacturing and refinement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Machiavelli examine in Chapter 1 of Book 2?

2. What does Machiavelli consider to be the worst example to be provided by leaders in a Republic?

3. What are the five types of government identified by Machiavelli?

4. In Book 1, Section 46, Machiavelli credits the ruin of Republics on citizens who jump from one ambition to another. What was the phrase that Sallust put in the mouth of Caesar that explains how such ambitions begin?

5. According to Machiavelli, how did the Agrarian Laws violate the foundation of well-ordered Republics?

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