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

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

3. Who would not allow Russian planes to refuel or land in Dakar?
(a) Fidel Castro.
(b) The U.S. Navy.
(c) President Leopold Senghor.
(d) President Sekou Toure.

4. What "committed American ground forces to what has become the longest war in our history" (102)?
(a) The invasion of Cambodia.
(b) The Bay of Pigs.
(c) The Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
(d) The Cuban Missile Crisis.

5. Who was George Ball?
(a) The Secretary of State.
(b) The Under Secretary of State.
(c) Former Ambassador to Cuba.
(d) Chief of Staff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Afterword for Thirteen Days?

2. Who told Ambassador Dobrynin about the President's intended speech?

3. According to Khrushchev, who are the only people who would provoke war in today's nuclear world?

4. Who publicly confronted Soviet Union Ambassador V. A. Zorin?

5. According to Robert in "Some of the things we learned . . .," what must a President have access to?

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