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 do fertile areas offer to those who settle there according to Machiavelli?
(a) Resources that will sustain a growing population.
(b) The ability to affect the economy of sterile areas.
(c) Raw materials that can be sent to sterile areas for manufacturing and refinement.
(d) The means by which a city can grow and have the ability to defend themselves.

2. How does Machiavelli recommend a Republic deal with enemies that spring up within an empire?
(a) He advises Princes to allow his supporters to conspire to assassinate the enemies.
(b) He recommends that efforts be made to temporize (compromise) them rather than crush them.
(c) He advocates smearing them with public proclamations about the threat they pose.
(d) Princes should name appoint them to offices to leave their actions open to public scrutiny.

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?
(a) "Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
(b) "Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil."
(c) "It is power that easily acquires a name, not a name power."
(d) "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

4. Why does Machiavelli recommend that those who want to reform a city should retain the appearance of the institutions they want to reform?
(a) Because the general masses are satisfied with appearances and are moved by things as they appear rather than by the way they operate (perception is reality).
(b) Because keeping the appearance of those institutions helps to hide the true agenda of the Prince.
(c) Because keeping the appearance of those institutions helps to keep important advisers within the circle of government.
(d) Because keeping the appearance of those institutions assures a smooth transition of power.

5. According to Machiavelli, what prevented the ambitions of the Nobles from corrupting Rome?
(a) Wars drained their wealth.
(b) Social ostracism by the Senate.
(c) The expanded Empire required that they move to colonies to lead them.
(d) The power of the Tribunes and the Plebes.