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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 35-61.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did JFK have a meeting with that was scheduled before the information about Cuba had been found?
(a) Ambassador Dobrynin.
(b) Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
(c) President Fidel Castro.
(d) Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev.

2. Why did JFK change the line of interception for the blockade?
(a) For safety.
(b) To tighten the line.
(c) To buy time.
(d) To show force.

3. Who told Ambassador Dobrynin about the President's intended speech?
(a) Dean Acheson.
(b) Secretary Rusk.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) Adlai Stevenson.

4. Who intervened with the newspapers to delay the report of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) JFK.
(b) Robert Kennedy.
(c) Ed Martin.
(d) George Ball.

5. When did John F. Kennedy call his brother, Robert, to the White House to discuss the photographs taken over Cuba?
(a) October 20, 1964.
(b) October 15, 1964.
(c) October 16, 1962.
(d) September 4, 1962.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert believe often leads to war?

2. What type of non-fiction is Thirteen Days?

3. What position did John McCloy one hold?

4. What did JFK order into the air at all times until the crisis was over?

5. What does Robert claim was impossible for Ex Comm to come up with when making their recommendations to JFK?

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