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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 35-61.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Ex Comm believe would happen if they put a blockade around Cuba?
(a) Russia would use nuclear force.
(b) Cuba would bomb the naval fleet.
(c) Cuba would give up.
(d) Russia would put a blockade around Berlin.

4. How far was the original line of interception for the blockade?
(a) 800 miles.
(b) 750 miles.
(c) 500 miles.
(d) 8000 miles.

5. Who presented the United States case to the United Nations?
(a) Adlai Stevenson and John McCloy.
(b) David Shoup and John LeMay.
(c) JFK and Robert Kennedy.
(d) John McCone and Robert McNamara.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one requirement of the blockade plan?

2. What is SAM an acronym for?

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

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

5. Which group was created "for the purpose of effective conduct of the operations of the executive branch in the current crisis" (45)?

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