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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 89-106.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do men have the power to do today that they did not in past war making?
(a) Save the world.
(b) Start wars without involving other countries.
(c) Destroy mankind.
(d) Fight without killing anyone.
2. According to the Afterword, the Cuban Missile Crisis is important on how many levels?
(a) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.
3. How far was the original line of interception for the blockade?
(a) 800 miles.
(b) 8000 miles.
(c) 500 miles.
(d) 750 miles.
4. Which group was created "for the purpose of effective conduct of the operations of the executive branch in the current crisis" (45)?
(a) The Cabinet.
(b) Executive Committee of the National Security Council.
(c) Organization of American States.
(d) Joint Chiefs of Staff.
5. Robert tells that JFK felt that if what had happened could be considered a triumph, it was only one for who?
(a) Cuba.
(b) The next generation.
(c) America.
(d) The Soviet Union.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Robert meets with Dobrynin after the blockade is put into effect, what does Dobrynin say the ships will do?
2. Who said "I am not going to follow a course which will allow anyone to write a comparable book about this time, The Missiles of October" (98)?
3. Who said, "I am not in an American courtroom, sir, and therefore I do not wish to answer a question that is put to me in the fashion in which a prosecutor puts questions" (58)?
4. Who said, "It is exactly what I would have done . . . a great government such as yours does not act without evidence" (41)?
5. 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)?
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