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 are the five types of government identified by Machiavelli?
(a) Democracy, anarchy, monarchy, constitutional, and institutional.
(b) Tyranny, constitutional, military oligarchy, principality, and democracy.
(c) Monarchy, aristocracy, democracy, oligarchy, and anarchy.
(d) Republic, fascistic, democracy, principality, and oligarchy.

2. What does Machiavelli write will prevent a bad Citizen from working evil in a Republic?
(a) General disregard for their reputation.
(b) The government taking steps to temporize the bad Citizen.
(c) The absence of corruption.
(d) Conspiracy against the bad Citizen.

3. According to Machiavelli in Section 1 of Book One, who are the two types of people who build cities?
(a) Craftsmen and politicians.
(b) Farmers and merchants.
(c) Princes and generals.
(d) Men born in their location or foreigners.

4. 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 allowed the government to decide what was to be grown on land in spite of the expertise of the land owner.
(c) Agrarian laws allowed land owners to use their land to help the poor become wealthy.
(d) 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.

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