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

2. What do fertile areas offer to those who settle there according to Machiavelli?
(a) Resources that will sustain a growing population.
(b) Raw materials that can be sent to sterile areas for manufacturing and refinement.
(c) The means by which a city can grow and have the ability to defend themselves.
(d) The ability to affect the economy of sterile areas.

3. According to Machiavelli in Section 1 of Book One, who are the two types of people who build cities?
(a) Craftsmen and politicians.
(b) Princes and generals.
(c) Farmers and merchants.
(d) Men born in their location or foreigners.

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

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