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

2. What was Robert's main argument against a surprise attack?
(a) Christian morality.
(b) Cowardice of surprise.
(c) America's traditions and history.
(d) Ineffectiveness of attack.

3. What did Dobrynin say the Cubans resented when Robert meets with him after the U-2 was shot down?
(a) U.S. democracy.
(b) The Bay of Pigs.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Violation of Cuban air space.

4. When the Soviet Union refused to acknowledge the blockade, how often were low level flights conducted over Cuba?
(a) Once a day.
(b) Every two hours.
(c) Five times a day.
(d) Every hour.

5. Who publicly confronted Soviet Union Ambassador V. A. Zorin?
(a) Ted Sorensen.
(b) Adlai Stevenson.
(c) Bertrand Russell.
(d) David Ormsby Gore.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Russian submarines were in the Caribbean after the blockade took effect?

2. What position did John McCloy one hold?

3. What was the "legal foundation" (40) for the blockade?

4. Who said, "I am not in an American courtroom, sir, and therefore I do not wish to answer a question that is put to me in the fashion in which a prosecutor puts questions" (58)?

5. What is SAM an acronym for?

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