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 is a Prince as Machiavelli uses the term?
(a) A monarch over a sovereign system of government and territory.
(b) A hereditary noble.
(c) A dispatched bureaucrat that carries out orders over a territory.
(d) An underling to the ruling authority.

2. What historical records did Machiavelli use to support his point for keeping two important items out of peril?
(a) Historical records of Hannibal and England.
(b) Historical records of Tullus and Metius.
(c) Historical records of military tactics.
(d) Historical records of Rome and France.

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

4. What was an example from Roman history that Machiavelli used to suggest the Plebes possesses greater wisdom than Nobles?
(a) The failed attempt of the Nobles to put Plebes of ill-repute to selection for Tribunes.
(b) A time when the Plebes could have chosen all Plebes for four Tribunes, chose, instead, four Nobles because they recognized the weaknesses of Plebes filling those offices.
(c) The Magistrates decision to delay battle against the Samnites.
(d) The willingness of the Plebes to go to war for the glory of Rome.

5. What does Machiavelli claim causes men to conspire against their target?
(a) The desire to take power over the military.
(b) The desire to manipulate the general masses.
(c) The desire to take control of the Senate
(d) The desire to liberate a country occupied by the Prince.