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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, The Development of Rome's Constitution, The Popular Demand for a Share in Government, The Management of the Populace, The Advantages of Popular Government.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Machiavelli believe will come of agreements made by force?
(a) They aid to enhance the power of the Prince.
(b) The will lead to the capture of those who are under the power.
(c) They will lead to the overthrow of he who has the power to enforce them.
(d) They will not last.

2. What does Machiavelli identify as tactics the Citizen seeking not to be harmed uses?
(a) Obscurity.
(b) The financial ability to buy protection.
(c) Acquiring friendships either through honest means or by supplying money to protect themselves from the powerful (bribes).
(d) Friendships with Citizens who are bold enough to fight.

3. What are two reasons Machiavelli gives for foreign forces building a city?
(a) To offer people in other lands the benefits of the existing system and to make their abilities and resources for universally beneficial.
(b) To relieve existing towns of excessive inhabitants and for the defense of the country from which the forces come.
(c) To exercise power over enemies and expand the power of an established system.
(d) To spread the culture of the homeland and use resources for financial development.

4. According to Machiavelli, what caused the Roman Republic to form?
(a) Trade agreements between cities with resources and cities with technologies.
(b) Political rivalries between powerful generals.
(c) Class warfare between the patricians and the plebes.
(d) Economic agreements between fertile cities.

5. According to Machiavelli, how did the Agrarian Laws violate the foundation of well-ordered Republics?
(a) Agrarian laws allowed Nobles to take land from Plebes with the intent to increase the land's productivity.
(b) 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.
(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 land owners to use their land to help the poor become wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an obvious counterpoint to Machiavelli's assertion to the benefits of the power of the Caesars to the Roman Empire?

2. What does Machiavelli believe to the nature of men that causes them to either fight from ambition or from necessity?

3. According to Machiavelli, what type of people seek what office to cause a city to become corrupt?

4. What is Machiavelli's explanation for initiating his recommended approach with enemies against an empire?

5. According to Machiavelli in Section 1 of Book One, who are the two types of people who build cities?

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