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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 does JFK write to after the Russians agree to remove missiles from Cuba?
(a) Mrs. Anderson.
(b) Castro.
(c) Mrs. Onasis.
(d) Khrushchev.

2. What piece of information caused JFK to favor the blockade?
(a) Russian promise to use nuclear weapons against Berlin.
(b) No guarantee that American lives would not be lost.
(c) No guarantee of all missiles being destroyed.
(d) The Russian demand to remove bombs from Turkey.

3. What was the "legal foundation" (40) for the blockade?
(a) The UN regulations.
(b) The OAS Charter.
(c) The OSHA regulations.
(d) The Cuban Peace Treaty.

4. What did JFK ask in a letter to Khrushchev after ordering the blockade?
(a) For Khrushchev to leave Berlin out of their deliberations.
(b) For Khrushchev to observe the quarantine.
(c) All shipes to turn back.
(d) All missiles to be handed over.

5. Robert tells he once heard World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons. What then would the next war be fought with?
(a) Swords and cannons.
(b) Guns and knives.
(c) Sticks and stones.
(d) Atomic weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. die?

2. What does Robert suggest the President use to get an opposite opinion if no one else will offer it?

3. When the Soviet Union refused to acknowledge the blockade, how often were low level flights conducted over Cuba?

4. What two items were added to the embargo list after the successful boarding of the Marucla?

5. Who said, "if the Russians' response makes a military action or invasion inevitable, I want to be able to feel that we will not have to waste any days having to get ready" (47).

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