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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 an important action for Nobles to take to control the ambitions of Citizens seeking position?
(a) Forestall their paths to attain the rank they seek.
(b) Find ways to bring the ambitious Citizens into Noble circles to keep them under watch and compromise their influence.
(c) Have them kidnapped and killed.
(d) Find ways to have them sent to war.

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

3. What is a Prince as Machiavelli uses the term?
(a) A dispatched bureaucrat that carries out orders over a territory.
(b) A monarch over a sovereign system of government and territory.
(c) An underling to the ruling authority.
(d) A hereditary noble.

4. How did Machiavelli report that the Nobles controlled the process of Plebes having the opportunity to choose Plebes for four Tribunes?
(a) They began a war and had many Plebes sent to a foreign province.
(b) They were in charge of counting the votes.
(c) They offered choices between highly reputable Nobles and ignoble Plebes who asked to be considered for the positions.
(d) They controlled the means of Plebes to provide for themselves.

5. How many commanders does Machiavelli advise over an army?
(a) One for battle and one for negotiation.
(b) A tribunal.
(c) One.
(d) One for each division.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Sparta peacefully exist without changing its laws, according to Machiavelli?

2. What did Machiavelli establish as the cycle of governing forms?

3. What does Machiavelli claim to be the cause of Princes losing inherited power?

4. From what did Machiavelli develop the information that he wrote into "The Discourses"?

5. What did Machiavelli cite as the method that Rome used to maintain its freedom?

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