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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Robert believe often leads to war?
(a) Prudence.
(b) Greed.
(c) Hate.
(d) Pride.

3. What might have happened to the President if he had not acted?
(a) Public humiliation.
(b) Impeachment.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Death.

4. Who was concerned about how the U.S. would convince the rest of the world that the blockade was necessary and legal?
(a) The French President.
(b) The leaders in OAS.
(c) The Prime Minister of Canada.
(d) The Chancellor of West Germany.

5. Against what strategy was the following argument used: It would be like "closing the door after the horse has left the barn" (28)?
(a) Nuclear War.
(b) Summit.
(c) Air stike.
(d) Blockade.

6. What book had JFK recently read that had to do with miscalculations leading to war?
(a) The Guns of August.
(b) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
(c) Night.
(d) The Dangerous Summer.

7. Who said, "if the Russians' response makes a military action or invasion inevitable, I want to be able to feel that we will not have to waste any days having to get ready" (47).
(a) General LeMay.
(b) Secretary McNamara.
(c) General Shoup.
(d) JFK.

8. What was the "legal foundation" (40) for the blockade?
(a) The OSHA regulations.
(b) The UN regulations.
(c) The OAS Charter.
(d) The Cuban Peace Treaty.

9. What did JFK ask in a letter to Khrushchev after ordering the blockade?
(a) For Khrushchev to observe the quarantine.
(b) For Khrushchev to leave Berlin out of their deliberations.
(c) All shipes to turn back.
(d) All missiles to be handed over.

10. What did the intelligence community tell JFK on September 19th, regarding the possibility of Russians putting offensive weapons in Cuba?
(a) Russia would put offensive weapons in Cuba.
(b) Russia would use offensive weapons if in Cuba.
(c) Russia would put offensive weapons in Cuba, but they would not be a threat.
(d) Russia would not put offensive weapons in Cuba.

11. Who did Robert admire and who also began attending meetings after the meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
(a) Dean Acheson.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Secretary McNamara.
(d) General LeMay.

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

13. What is one effect of pressure, according to Robert?
(a) It causes everyone to cry.
(b) It leads to quitting.
(c) It makes everyone agree.
(d) It brings out unknown characteristics and strengths.

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

15. Who said that Russia only wanted to "give bread to Cuba in order to prevent hunger in that country" (34)?
(a) Dobrynin.
(b) Khrushchev.
(c) Gromyko.
(d) Castro.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did JFK change the line of interception for the blockade?

2. Who does JFK meet with whom Robert claims he "trusted implicitly" (51)?

3. What does "Ex Comm" stand for?

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

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

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