This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three, The Examples of Rome's Great Men, Sundry Remarks on Strategy, Tactics, New Devices and Discipline, Administrative Posts, Administrative Methods: The Rival Claims of Severity and Good Fellowship.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Machiavelli identify as the easiest way to "...ruin a Republic where the People have authority...."
(a) For the Nobles to promote corrupted Citizens in elections.
(b) For Nobles to cultivate rivalries between partisans among the People.
(c) Cause them to distribute wealth.
(d) Involve them in a brave enterprise.

2. What was an example from Roman history that Machiavelli used to suggest the Plebes possesses greater wisdom than Nobles?
(a) The Magistrates decision to delay battle against the Samnites.
(b) The failed attempt of the Nobles to put Plebes of ill-repute to selection for Tribunes.
(c) The willingness of the Plebes to go to war for the glory of Rome.
(d) A time when the Plebes could have chosen all Plebes for four Tribunes, chose, instead, four Nobles because they recognized the weaknesses of Plebes filling those offices.

3. What does Machiavelli consider an important tool in maintaining the order of a Republic?
(a) Wars that keep the citizenry focused on supporting the City.
(b) Fear of harsh administrators.
(c) The ability to control the perceptions of citizens.
(d) Proper administration of rewards and punishments.

4. What are the three ways a Republic can expand that Machiavelli recognized?
(a) By sending Nobles out to establish colonies, by sending armies out to conquer foreign provinces, and making other provinces associates.
(b) By conquering distant provinces, by supporting other provinces to conquer enemies, and to make allies with strong Republics.
(c) By joining in league with other Republics, make other Republics associates, and to make other Republics subjects immediately.
(d) By making trade alliances with wealthy provinces, by joining in war with weak Republics, and by making alliances with powerful tyrannies.

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