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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 89-106.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did JFK say, "Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating defeat or a nuclear war" (97)?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) American University.
(d) Cornell University.

2. When Robert meets with Dobrynin after the blockade is put into effect, what does Dobrynin say the ships will do?
(a) Continue as planned.
(b) Turn back to Russia.
(c) Take military action against boarders.
(d) Re-route to another country.

3. Who does JFK write to after the Russians agree to remove missiles from Cuba?
(a) Castro.
(b) Khrushchev.
(c) Mrs. Anderson.
(d) Mrs. Onasis.

4. Who was JFK communicating with on a daily basis?
(a) Khrushechev.
(b) U Thant.
(c) The OAS.
(d) Robert.

5. Who said, " You are in the courtroom of world opinion right now, and you can answer yes or no. You have denied that they exist, and I want to know whether or I have understood you correctly" (58)?
(a) Adlai Stevenson.
(b) V. A. Zorin.
(c) Pierre Salinger.
(d) Don Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said "we are now in an entirely new ball game" (74)?

2. Who was George Ball?

3. Why did JFK originally want to remove the missiles from Turkey?

4. What did the ex-Chancellor of Germany at the outbreak of the First World War ask his successor?

5. What does Robert believe had a "major psychological and practical effect on the Russians and changed our position . . . into a country acting in accordance with twenty allies legally protecting their position" (92)?

(see the answer key)

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