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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert believe had a "major psychological and practical effect on the Russians and changed our position . . . into a country acting in accordance with twenty allies legally protecting their position" (92)?
(a) The African countries voicing support.
(b) A declaration of war.
(c) Congressional approval.
(d) Support from the OAS.

2. Who handles all international problems for the U.S.?
(a) The ambassadors.
(b) The Secretary of State.
(c) The CIA.
(d) The Chief of Staff.

3. Who is supposed to declare war according to the Constitution?
(a) The Supreme Court.
(b) The Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(c) Congress.
(d) The President.

4. Who was JFK communicating with on a daily basis?
(a) Robert.
(b) Khrushechev.
(c) U Thant.
(d) The OAS.

5. Who urged the President to release photos of missiles to the UN for publication?
(a) Adlai Stevenson.
(b) Dovid Ormsby Gore.
(c) Ted Sorensen.
(d) Pierre Salinger

6. Why does Khrushchev claim the Soviet Union has placed missiles in Cuba?
(a) To fire upon all major U.S. cities.
(b) To provoke the U.S. into war.
(c) To potect the Soviet people in Cuba.
(d) To prevent the U.S. from invading.

7. Why did JFK originally want to remove the missiles from Turkey?
(a) They were dangerous to world peace.
(b) He wanted to invade Turkey.
(c) He did not want to anger the Soviets.
(d) They were obsolete.

8. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what role did Congress play?
(a) They declared war.
(b) They helped formulate ideas.
(c) They were informed.
(d) Some were members of Ex Comm.

9. 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.

10. What feeling does Robert believe Congress and the country is turning to but should not?
(a) Inclusion.
(b) Communism.
(c) Isolationism.
(d) Marxism.

11. Who would analyze Khrushchev's personal letter and make recommendations on October 27th?
(a) The Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(b) Congress.
(c) The State Department.
(d) Robert.

12. At what time did the long and personal letter from Khrushchev come on October 26th?
(a) Midnight.
(b) 6PM.
(c) Noon.
(d) 6AM.

13. Who was the ex-Chancellor of Germany at the outbreak of World War I?
(a) Kristof Romanoff.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Joseph Stalin.
(d) Prince von Bulow.

14. What animal does Khrushchev compare Russia and the U.S. to when he says they will be exterminated in the case of a war?
(a) Moles.
(b) Rats.
(c) Hawkes.
(d) Doves.

15. Who said "we are now in an entirely new ball game" (74)?
(a) Robert Kennedy.
(b) McNamara.
(c) Anderson.
(d) JFK.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose plane was shot down while flying reconnaissance over Cuba?

2. How many passengers were on the East German Passenger ship that approached the blockade?

3. What do men have the power to do today that they did not in past war making?

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

5. 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)?

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