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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method of dealing with leaders of tumults that divide cities does Machiavelli favor?
(a) Conscripting combatants into the military.
(b) Killing the leaders of tumults.
(c) Taking the women into slavery.
(d) Dividing the City's wealth among the factions.

2. Who does Machiavelli credit with protecting Rome from the ambitions of the Tribunes?
(a) Appius Claudius.
(b) Lucius Brutus.
(c) Junius Claudius.
(d) Claudius Lucius.

3. According to Machiavelli, if men have prospered greatly by one procedure, what is not possible?
(a) To undo their success.
(b) To persuade them they can do well with other procedures.
(c) To remove them from their position.
(d) To undo their honor.

4. What does Machiavelli claim causes disunity in a Republic?
(a) Corruption and war.
(b) Idleness and peace.
(c) Wealth and industry.
(d) Fortune and leisure.

5. What does Machiavelli name as the reason that good men cannot accomplish good for his country?
(a) The lack of methods to pass down customs.
(b) Incompetence.
(c) They are at war.
(d) Envy of other men.

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

7. What does Machiavelli claim causes unity in a Republic?
(a) Idleness and peace.
(b) Fortune and leisure.
(c) Fear and war.
(d) Wealth and industry.

8. In Book 3, Section 25, what does Machiavelli repeat to be the most useful thing to establish in a Republic?
(a) Women's rights.
(b) Public mechanisms for delivering benefits.
(c) Universal suffrage.
(d) That its Citizens are to be kept poor.

9. What does Machiavelli claim to be the conduct of excellent and courageous men whether they experience good fortune or bad?
(a) They find enemies and defeat them.
(b) They never refuse any type of challenge.
(c) They keep their courage in any fortune.
(d) They adjust to the times.

10. What has Machiavelli considered many times to be the causes of good and bad fortunes to men?
(a) Their manner of proceeding with the times.
(b) Their choice of friends.
(c) Decisions for military tactics.
(d) Enemies knowing their plans.

11. What does Machiavelli believe to be important to extending the life of what he calls "mixed bodies" (Republics and Sects)?
(a) Providing the means from the state to keep them secure.
(b) Returning to their original principles.
(c) Keeping turmoil alive between common masses.
(d) Staying in a continual state of war.

12. How does the institution that makes men "harsh or effeminate" influence them, according to Machiavelli?
(a) Because, "The Plebs either prepare for virtus of war or fall to corruption."
(b) Because, "The Senate either deliberates or declares war."
(c) Because, "It is very important that a young man of tender years begins to hear the good and bad of a thing."
(d) Because, "The magistrates either declare punishments or delays judgment."

13. Why does Machiavelli consider it impossible to establish a perpetual Republic?
(a) Because all the ruling Nobles will have to be sent to colonies.
(b) Because a Republic must always send its best men to war.
(c) Because a Republic will always have ambitious men.
(d) Because in a thousand unforeseen ways its ruin may be caused.

14. What knowledge is necessary for a Captain to be successful?
(a) The knowledge of deception.
(b) The knowledge of sites (geography).
(c) The knowledge of the enemy.
(d) The knowledge of tactics.

15. What does Machiavelli believe comes to a good army without a good Captain?
(a) It breaks apart and goes home.
(b) It regroups and promotes its most virtuous member.
(c) It becomes insolent and dangerous.
(d) It sells itself to the highest bidder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Machiavelli predict comes to those Republics that are changed violently.

2. Against whom are conspiracies made?

3. On what does Machiavelli believe a Republic must be organized?

4. What does Machiavelli recommend that prudent men avoid?

5. What does Machiavelli predict will come of corrupted Republics if they do not take the important step of extending its life?

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