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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. Why does Machiavelli advise Captains to use new things at the time that he does?
(a) To give courage to his enemies and take it from enemies.
(b) Because the new technology requires different tactics.
(c) Because training is the best time to determine their use.
(d) Because the enemy won't see them in camp.

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

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

4. What should the reader consider as evil when Machiavelli is advising Princes to "recognize evils".
(a) Evil should be considered to be any influence which challenges the power of the Prince.
(b) Evil is anything with which a Prince does not agree.
(c) Evil is those human inclinations that cause them to act selfishly.
(d) Evil is those public reactions that oppose the Prince.

5. What does Machiavelli suggest as the intention to make war?
(a) To prove the power of the Prince to the Citizens.
(b) To acquire and maintain the acquisition, so as to enrich themselves and not to impoverish the [conquered] country the home country.
(c) To keep Citizens focused on refining their virtue.
(d) To keep Citizens attached to the power of the Prince.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Book 1, Section 37, what does Machiavelli claim to be the foundation of well-ordered Republics?

2. Why does Machiavelli claim that the rule of the Caesars was preferable to the regime of the Decemvirs?

3. What, according to Machiavelli in Book , 1 Section 38, is the fate of irresolute Republics?

4. According to Machiavelli, how did the Nobles of Rome attempt to correct the limit on the wealth that was placed on them by Agrarian Laws?

5. What does Machiavelli consider to be the means of someone rising from the bottom to gain a great fortune?

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