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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, The Growth of Rome's Empire, Preface, Methods of Expansion, Colonization and War: Its Causes and Cost, Diplomacy and War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "Crescit interea Roma Albae ruinis" mean?
(a) The Roman interrogations ruined Albanian Fertile Crescent.
(b) Creative Romans will bring ruins to Alba.
(c) Rome and Alba ruined Crete's industry.
(d) Rome grew on the ruins of Alba .

2. According to Machiavelli, what caused so much hard work for Rome as it expanded its Empire to distant provinces?
(a) The love of people of other lands for liberty.
(b) The damage to families who sent their working sons to war.
(c) The demands on farmers to provide the food for soldiers on long trips.
(d) The cost of sending the military to distant provinces.

3. What are three reasons that Machiavelli gives for cities becoming unhappy?
(a) When cities are compelled to reorganize laws by themselves, when the laws diverge from their established institutions, and when the laws lead cities from the right path.
(b) When cities face armed challenges from outside institutions, the courts do not act justly, and when leaders abuse their power.
(c) When leaders drain resources to fight wars, when laws become tools for Princes to become more wealthy, when there is taxation without representation.
(d) When taxes drain Plebes of their wages, when resources are not allocated equitably, and when Princes seek to expand their influence with wars.

4. What support did Machiavelli use for his view of what he considers to be the worst example provided by leaders?
(a) Tribunes who called the army from foreign provinces and decommissioned its Captains.
(b) A recent denial of appeal by Girolamo Savonarola to five citizens sentenced to death after Savonarola wrote the law allowing appeals.
(c) The lawlessness that overtook Carthage as its Princes suspended harsh sentences for crimes against the State.
(d) A series of Caesars who named friends to be Captains.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Machiavelli consider to be the worst example to be provided by leaders in a Republic?

2. What does Machiavelli claim causes ingratitude from a conquered citizenry?

3. What does Machiavelli recommend to a City that is unable to defend itself, but wants to be protected from anyone who would attack it?

4. What are the two means that Machiavelli identifies as how laws are developed in cities at the beginning of Section 2, Book One.

5. In Book 1, Section 46, Machiavelli credits the ruin of Republics on citizens who jump from one ambition to another. What was the phrase that Sallust put in the mouth of Caesar that explains how such ambitions begin?

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