This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three, The Examples of Rome's Great Men, Reform, Security, and the Elimination of Rivals, On Conspiracies, The Need of Adaptation to Environment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Machiavelli report led gatherings of people to make laws?
(a) To avoid evils that people committed on others.
(b) To set order to the defense of the city.
(c) To protect economic activity that benefited the city.
(d) So resources could be justly distributed.

2. Who does Machiavelli consider to have an advantage in battle?
(a) The Cavalry.
(b) The attacker.
(c) The largest army.
(d) The Artillery.

3. What does Machiavelli consider one of the most important reasons the Roman Empire was successful in expanding its borders?
(a) The Senate gave great authority to military leaders over Cities that Rome was attacking.
(b) It kept Citizens in poverty.
(c) It had laws that kept the Plebes in their place.
(d) It showed skill in placing Nobles in control over colonies.

4. What does Machiavelli believe to the nature of men that causes them to either fight from ambition or from necessity?
(a) Men that choose to fight always fight for personal benefit.
(b) Men that choose to fight always fight for the glory of the City.
(c) They fight so they can have the power to deliver liberty to themselves and the City.
(d) They are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything.

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?
(a) "I see the better things, and approve; I follow the worse."
(b) "All evil examples have their origins in good beginnings."
(c) "Beware the Ides of March."
(d) "Vini. Vidi. Vici."