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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 63-88.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many passengers were on the East German Passenger ship that approached the blockade?
(a) Fifteen hundered.
(b) One hundered.
(c) Fifty.
(d) One thousand.

3. Who said, " You are in the courtroom of world opinion right now, and you can answer yes or no. You have denied that they exist, and I want to know whether or I have understood you correctly" (58)?
(a) Adlai Stevenson.
(b) Pierre Salinger.
(c) Don Wilson.
(d) V. A. Zorin.

4. Who said, "I am not in an American courtroom, sir, and therefore I do not wish to answer a question that is put to me in the fashion in which a prosecutor puts questions" (58)?
(a) Don Wilson.
(b) Andrei Gromyko.
(c) Adlai Stevenson.
(d) V. A. Zorin.

5. Who was approached by a Soviet Embassy official to offer a proposal for removing the missiles from Cuba?
(a) Sorensen.
(b) Robert.
(c) John Scali.
(d) JFK.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who intervened with the newspapers to delay the report of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

2. How many Americans could potentially have died within minutes of the known missiles being fired off as of October 18th?

3. When looking at the first photographs of the missile bases in Cuba, what did JFK say it looked like?

4. At what time did the long and personal letter from Khrushchev come on October 26th?

5. What was the main reason that the President did not attend all of the Ex Comm meetings?

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