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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 63-88.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is SAM an acronym for?
(a) Submarine aquatic mission.
(b) Surface attack mission.
(c) Surface-to-air-missile.
(d) Strategy against missiles.

2. What was the name of the first ship boarded at the blockade?
(a) Kremlin.
(b) Bucharest.
(c) Marucla.
(d) John Pierce.

3. Who suggested that the US take military action against Cuba for America's safety, not knowing about the missiles?
(a) Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
(b) Senator Richard B. Russell.
(c) Senator J. William Fulbright.
(d) Senator Homer E. Caphart.

4. Who was U Thant?
(a) Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations.
(b) Secretary of Defense.
(c) Soviet Chairman.
(d) Acting Secretary General of the United Nations.

5. Before the announcement could be made that there was a Cuban Missile Crisis, what did the press report on instead of the crisis?
(a) The President would make a speech.
(b) The normal news.
(c) The OAS meeting.
(d) The secret meetings of Ex Comm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one effect of pressure, according to Robert?

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

3. 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)?

4. Who publicly confronted Soviet Union Ambassador V. A. Zorin?

5. When the Soviet Union refused to acknowledge the blockade, how often were low level flights conducted over Cuba?

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