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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. Whose job does Robert believe is getting bigger and is in actuality five jobs under one title?
(a) The Presidency.
(b) The Head of State.
(c) The Secretary of State.
(d) The CIA.

2. What happened around 10:30, October 27th, the first day of the blockade?
(a) The Russian ships fired upon a U-2.
(b) The Cubans overran the U.S. embassy.
(c) The Cubans shot down a plane.
(d) The Russian ships stopped.

3. Who wrote the letter responding to Khrushchev's first letter?
(a) The State Department.
(b) JFK and Robert.
(c) Robert and Sorensen.
(d) The Joint Chiefs of Staff.

4. What did Robert sarcastically claim to be the advantage to being wrong in the case of military action?
(a) America's nuclear power would keep other countries from voicing disapproval.
(b) No one would be around to know.
(c) It was favored by the American people.
(d) All of the enemies would be destroyed.

5. Who said "war is impossible . . . there is no alternative to peace" (104)?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) Theodore Sorensen.
(c) Thomas Schelling.
(d) Robert McNamara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sent messages praising Russia and castigating the U.S.?

2. According to the Afterword, what did victory mean pre-1945?

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

4. What "committed American ground forces to what has become the longest war in our history" (102)?

5. Who was concerned about how the U.S. would convince the rest of the world that the blockade was necessary and legal?

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