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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. When does Machiavelli advise Captains to try new things?
(a) When it is camped in the open field.
(b) When it is training.
(c) While armies are engaged.
(d) Never.

2. Through what means does Machiavelli suggest that a City can achieve what he considers greatness?
(a) Through love or force.
(b) Through fear and violence.
(c) Through laws and wealth.
(d) Through conquest and deceit.

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

4. What does Machiavelli announce as the purpose of Book Two of "The Discourses" in the preface?
(a) How to secure power by expanding it.
(b) What Roman people did to aggrandize the Empire.
(c) How to secure freedom for an Empire by keeping the military active.
(d) How to use truth to persuade Citizens to support the power of the Prince.

5. 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 land owners to use their land to help the poor become wealthy.
(d) Agrarian laws allowed Nobles to take land from Plebes with the intent to increase the land's productivity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a rival Empire to Rome as Rome began its expansion?

2. How many commanders does Machiavelli advise over an army?

3. How did Phillip of Macedonia avoid battles with Fabius Maximus?

4. Why does Machiavelli advise Captains to use new things at the time that he does?

5. What support did Machiavelli use for his view of what he considers to be the worst example provided by leaders?

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