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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. What position did John McCloy one hold?
(a) Cheif Justice for the Supreme Court.
(b) Secretary of State.
(c) High Commissioner to Germany.
(d) Ambassador to Russia.

2. Who testified to Congress in 1964 that "in the first hour [of all-out nuclear war] one hundred million Americans and one hundred million Russians would be killed" (104)?
(a) Robert McNamara.
(b) Thomas Schelling.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Theodore Sorensen.

3. In the section "Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962 . . .," why were initial reports of missiles in Cuba not passed on to the President?
(a) They were reports from double agents.
(b) They needed to be rechecked.
(c) They were lies.
(d) They were passed on to the President, but were ignored.

4. Who wrote the Afterword for Thirteen Days?
(a) Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
(b) Theodore Sorensen.
(c) Richard Neustadt and Graham Allison.
(d) David Schoenbrun.

5. What does JFK worry that that Khrushchev may have misjudged?
(a) His medal.
(b) The distance from Cuba to the U.S.
(c) His mettle.
(d) His leadership.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told an interviewer that "the fourteen people involved were very significant . . . If six of them had been President of the U.S., I think that the world might have been blown up" (121)?

2. What three U.S. wars were never declared?

3. Who did Robert admire and who also began attending meetings after the meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff?

4. Why is Constitutional reform granting Congress more power over declaring war unlikely?

5. Who intervened with the newspapers to delay the report of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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