View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 63-88.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the letter responding to Khrushchev's first letter?
(a) Robert and Sorensen.
(b) The State Department.
(c) JFK and Robert.
(d) The Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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

3. According to Robert in the section, "It was now up to one single man," what did JFK stress in his speech to the nation?
(a) The blockade was the initial step.
(b) The surgical air-strike was the initial step.
(c) The U.S. was not yet in danger.
(d) The U.S. would invade Cuba.

4. How did Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. die?
(a) Contracted polio.
(b) Killed in WWII.
(c) Assassinated.
(d) Drowned.

5. Who wrote the note saying, "I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor" (24)?
(a) John McCone.
(b) Robert F. Kennedy.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Dobrynin say the Cubans resented when Robert meets with him after the U-2 was shot down?

3. What does "Ex Comm" stand for?

4. Who would analyze Khrushchev's personal letter and make recommendations on October 27th?

5. How many ships either stopped or turned back before reaching the blockade?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 238 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample