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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 106-150.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 OAS meeting.
(c) The secret meetings of Ex Comm.
(d) The normal news.

2. Who said, "they, no more than we, can let these things go by without doing something. They can't after all their statements, permit us to take out their missiles, kill a lot of Russians, and then do nothing. If they don't take action in Cuba, they certainly will in Berlin" (28)?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) General LeMay.
(c) General Shoup.
(d) Robert F. Kennedy.

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

4. Who presented the argument for a blockade?
(a) Robert Kennedy.
(b) John McCone.
(c) Bob McNamara.
(d) Dean Rusk.

5. Who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) J. Edgar. Hoover.
(d) John Scali.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event happened two years before the Cuban Missile Crisis and effected JFK's decision making?

2. Why does Khrushchev claim the Soviet Union has placed missiles in Cuba?

3. Who was Tommy Thompson?

4. In the section entitled, "It was now up to one single man," when did JFK hope to broadcast his plan to the nation?

5. What was the name of the first ship boarded at the blockade?

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