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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. 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 told Ambassador Dobrynin about the President's intended speech?
(a) Robert Kennedy.
(b) Adlai Stevenson.
(c) Secretary Rusk.
(d) Dean Acheson.

3. How many Russian submarines were in the Caribbean after the blockade took effect?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

4. What did JFK order into the air at all times until the crisis was over?
(a) B-52 bombers with atomic weapons.
(b) Helicopters with anti-missile equipment.
(c) U-2's to take photographs.
(d) Nothing, all of the action was at sea for the blockade.

5. 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) Cornell University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) American University.
(d) Princeton University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did JFK ask in a letter to Khrushchev after ordering the blockade?

2. Who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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

4. Who was the ex-Chancellor of Germany at the outbreak of World War I?

5. In a conversation between JFK and Robert, how far did JFK say that he wanted to push the Russians?

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