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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. While Ex Comm was making final decisions regarding their recommendations, JFK was where?
(a) Washington D.C.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Russia.

2. What piece of information caused JFK to favor the blockade?
(a) No guarantee that American lives would not be lost.
(b) No guarantee of all missiles being destroyed.
(c) The Russian demand to remove bombs from Turkey.
(d) Russian promise to use nuclear weapons against Berlin.

3. How many passengers were on the East German Passenger ship that approached the blockade?
(a) Fifteen hundered.
(b) Fifty.
(c) One hundered.
(d) One thousand.

4. Why did JFK change the line of interception for the blockade?
(a) For safety.
(b) To buy time.
(c) To tighten the line.
(d) To show force.

5. How did the members of Ex Comm avoid arousing suspicion when visiting the White House at 9:15 at night?
(a) Not all went to the meeting.
(b) They took the secret entrance.
(c) They arrived at different times.
(d) They all rode with Robert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one effect of pressure, according to Robert?

2. What does Robert claim was impossible for Ex Comm to come up with when making their recommendations to JFK?

3. What position did Robert hold in the Kennedy administration?

4. What did JFK ask in a letter to Khrushchev after ordering the blockade?

5. What was the main reason that the President did not attend all of the Ex Comm meetings?

(see the answer key)

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