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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three, The Example of Rome's Great Men, Internal Security, Equanimity, Insurrection, Confidence, Electioneering, and the Tendering of Advice, Advice to Generals in the Field.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Machiavelli's two thoughts on fortresses?
(a) They are important for protection and wise for storing armaments.
(b) They are not necessary and harmful.
(c) They build confidence and demonstrate power.
(d) They are costly and hard to maintain.

2. What does Machiavelli recommend as the three ways to restore a divided city?
(a) Dividing the city's wealth among the factions, sending them to colonies, conscripting them to the military.
(b) Build a wall between the combatants, place soldiers between their neighborhoods, and prevent them from passing among each other.
(c) Kill the leaders, conscript the men to the military, take the women into slavery.
(d) Kill the leaders of tumults, remove them from the city, or have them make peace.

3. What is an obvious counterpoint to Machiavelli's assertion to the benefits of the power of the Caesars to the Roman Empire?
(a) Without the empire is it possible that the hazards the empire faced would not have materialized.
(b) Without the Caesars, provinces of the Empire would have moved to avoid hazards.
(c) The cost of Empire caused hazards to gather domestically as well as throughout the Empire.
(d) If the Nobles of Rome had not sought to possess distant provinces, there would have been no need for Caesars.

4. How does Machiavelli recommend a Republic deal with enemies that spring up within an empire?
(a) He advises Princes to allow his supporters to conspire to assassinate the enemies.
(b) He recommends that efforts be made to temporize (compromise) them rather than crush them.
(c) He advocates smearing them with public proclamations about the threat they pose.
(d) Princes should name appoint them to offices to leave their actions open to public scrutiny.

5. What does Machiavelli claim new sects (religions) do as they rise to prominence?
(a) Influence the culture to defy the Prince.
(b) Influence Citizens to be obedient to the Prince.
(c) Cause Citizens to avoid fighting in wars.
(d) Destroy all the signs, including language, of the old sects they come to dominate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Machiavelli's conclusion regarding how someone can establish a Republic where there is great equality?

2. What method of dealing with leaders of tumults that divide cities does Machiavelli favor?

3. How did Roman soldiers provide for themselves before the Senate decided to pay them?

4. According to Machiavelli, what is the sign of a truly powerful Republic?

5. What does Machiavelli consider the most useful possession for the defense of a Republic?

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