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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 did Secretary McNamara do, despite his dissent to the strategy?
(a) Prepared the documents to release Berlin to Russia.
(b) Prepared the military for air bombardments.
(c) Sent communication to Khrushchev for a summit.
(d) Ordered the blockade.

2. According to the Afterword, what did victory mean pre-1945?
(a) New land to govern.
(b) Disarming the enemy.
(c) Occupation of another country.
(d) Elimination of the enemy.

3. Who said that Russia only wanted to "give bread to Cuba in order to prevent hunger in that country" (34)?
(a) Dobrynin.
(b) Khrushchev.
(c) Castro.
(d) Gromyko.

4. Where did JFK say, "Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating defeat or a nuclear war" (97)?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) American University.
(d) Cornell University.

5. What type of non-fiction is Thirteen Days?
(a) Essay.
(b) Biography.
(c) Memoir.
(d) Textbook.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After making his decision, when was the President's speech to the nation scheduled for?

3. Who suggested that the US take military action against Cuba for America's safety, not knowing about the missiles?

4. Robert tells that JFK felt that if what had happened could be considered a triumph, it was only one for who?

5. Who did JFK have a meeting with that was scheduled before the information about Cuba had been found?

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