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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 have them sent to war.
(c) Have them kidnapped and killed.
(d) Find ways to bring the ambitious Citizens into Noble circles to keep them under watch and compromise their influence.

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

3. According to Machiavelli, what caused the Roman Republic to form?
(a) Trade agreements between cities with resources and cities with technologies.
(b) Class warfare between the patricians and the plebes.
(c) Political rivalries between powerful generals.
(d) Economic agreements between fertile cities.

4. Who was esteemed as being wise for acting foolish from Livius' history of Rome?
(a) Caesar Junius.
(b) Octavious Brutus.
(c) Junius Brutus
(d) Junius Caesar.

5. What are the two means that Machiavelli identifies as how laws are developed in cities at the beginning of Section 2, Book One.
(a) Through dominion of the wealthy or through bartering agreements.
(b) By war and by peace.
(c) Through Princes or through Republics.
(d) At one time by one man and by chance at several times according to events.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Crescit interea Roma Albae ruinis" mean?

2. According to Machiavelli in Section 1 of Book One, who are the two types of people who build cities?

3. How does Machiavelli suggest that Princes and other leaders deal with acts that offend their citizens?

4. In Book 1, Section 37, what does Machiavelli claim to be the foundation of well-ordered Republics?

5. Why does Machiavelli claim that the rule of the Caesars was preferable to the regime of the Decemvirs?

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