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Final Test

This test consists of 5 multiple choice, 5 short answer, and 0 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. What method of dealing with leaders of tumults that divide cities does Machiavelli favor?
a) Dividing the City's wealth among the factions.
b) Taking the women into slavery.
c) Conscripting combatants into the military.
d) Killing the leaders of tumults.

2. 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?
a) "Beware the Ides of March."
b) "I see the better things, and approve; I follow the worse."
c) "Vini. Vidi. Vici."
d) "All evil examples have their origins in good beginnings."

3. Why would...
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