This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, The Development of Rome's Constitution, The Use and Abuse of Dictatorship, The Road to Ruin, Sundry Reflections Based on the Decemvirate.

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) Pestilence, famine or war.
(c) Racial conflict and economic injustice.
(d) Overcrowding and social unrest.

2. What support did Machiavelli use for his view of what he considers to be the worst example provided by leaders?
(a) Tribunes who called the army from foreign provinces and decommissioned its Captains.
(b) A recent denial of appeal by Girolamo Savonarola to five citizens sentenced to death after Savonarola wrote the law allowing appeals.
(c) A series of Caesars who named friends to be Captains.
(d) The lawlessness that overtook Carthage as its Princes suspended harsh sentences for crimes against the State.

3. According to Machiavelli, how did the Agrarian Laws violate the foundation of well-ordered Republics?
(a) 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.
(b) Agrarian laws allowed land owners to use their land to help the poor become wealthy.
(c) Agrarian laws allowed the government to decide what was to be grown on land in spite of the expertise of the land owner.
(d) Agrarian laws allowed Nobles to take land from Plebes with the intent to increase the land's productivity.

4. What did Machiavelli report led gatherings of people to make laws?
(a) So resources could be justly distributed.
(b) To avoid evils that people committed on others.
(c) To protect economic activity that benefited the city.
(d) To set order to the defense of the city.

5. What does Machiavelli consider an important tool in maintaining the order of a Republic?
(a) Fear of harsh administrators.
(b) Proper administration of rewards and punishments.
(c) Wars that keep the citizenry focused on supporting the City.
(d) The ability to control the perceptions of citizens.