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 to be the cause of Princes losing inherited power?
(a) Indifference to their Principality.
(b) Incompetence.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Their rejection of laws and ancient institutions.

2. In Book 1, Section 37, what does Machiavelli claim to be the foundation of well-ordered Republics?
(a) They keep the public [State] rich and its Citizens poor.
(b) They keep the public and the Citizens poor.
(c) They keep the Citizens rich and the public poor.
(d) They keep the public and the Citizens rich.

3. What is the reason Machiavelli claims Princes with weaker armies would rush into battle?
(a) Such Princes are deluded over their power.
(b) Such Princes face no alternative.
(c) Because a long war would be harmful to all his subjects.
(d) Because their judgment was hindered by the situation.

4. If a cliché could be given to the preface to Book Two of "The Discourses", what would it be?
(a) "Go where you belong--on the ash heap of history."
(b) ."The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history."
(c) "History is written by the winners."
(d) "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

5. What did Roman historian Livius call Necessity?
(a) THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.
(b) THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF FREEDOM.
(c) NECESSITY IS BUT AN INTERPRETATION.
(d) THE LAST AND BEST WEAPON.