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. What does Machiavelli establish as the relationship between gold and good soldiers?
(a) Gold attracts good soldiers.
(b) Gold is not sufficient to find good soldiers, but good soldiers are indeed sufficient to find gold.
(c) Gold will cause good soldiers to go bad.
(d) The promise of gold will make soldiers weaker.

2. Who does Machiavelli credit with protecting Rome from the ambitions of the Tribunes?
(a) Junius Claudius.
(b) Appius Claudius.
(c) Lucius Brutus.
(d) Claudius Lucius.

3. In Book 1, Section 37, what does Machiavelli claim to be the foundation of well-ordered Republics?
(a) They keep the public and the Citizens rich.
(b) They keep the Citizens rich and the public poor.
(c) They keep the public and the Citizens poor.
(d) They keep the public [State] rich and its Citizens poor.

4. What was a rival Empire to Rome as Rome began its expansion?
(a) The Egyptians.
(b) The Babylonians.
(c) The Carthaginians.
(d) The Spartans.

5. What, according to Machiavelli, did Epaminondas the Theban claim was most necessary and useful for a Captain?
(a) To use new tactics.
(b) To have new weapons.
(c) To fight in the open.
(d) To know the decisions and proceedings of the enemy.