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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. When does Machiavelli advise Captains to try new things?
(a) Never.
(b) While armies are engaged.
(c) When it is camped in the open field.
(d) When it is training.

2. What does Machiavelli recommend to a City that is unable to defend itself, but wants to be protected from anyone who would attack it?
(a) To give itself freely to whomever would defend the city.
(b) Hire mercenaries.
(c) Train its citizens to form a strong army.
(d) Make alliances with powerful Cities.

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

4. What does Machiavelli claim comes to those Republics that are changed through the general public?
(a) The Republic will break apart and be at war with its separate pieces.
(b) New elections will be controlled by the general public.
(c) The public will appoint inept leaders and it will fall.
(d) Only the head of the Republic will be harmed.

5. Through what means does Machiavelli suggest that a City can achieve what he considers greatness?
(a) Through conquest and deceit.
(b) Through fear and violence.
(c) Through love or force.
(d) Through laws and wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Machiavelli identify as the cause of using dishonorable words against an enemy?

2. What did Machiavelli suggest is the advantage of settling in areas that were "sterile" (barren)?

3. In defending his view that Roman Dictators served their city well, what phrase does Machiavelli use to explain how the Caesars absorbed their power?

4. In what cases does Machiavelli endorse acting foolishly?

5. Why does Machiavelli advise Captains to use new things at the time that he does?

(see the answer key)

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