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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 35-61.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert believe often leads to war?
(a) Greed.
(b) Pride.
(c) Prudence.
(d) Hate.

2. What did JFK read aloud at a meeting with a Russian representative?
(a) The Declaration of Independence.
(b) His own statement from September 4th.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Khrushchev's statement from September 19th.

3. 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.

4. Who did JFK have a meeting with that was scheduled before the information about Cuba had been found?
(a) Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev.
(b) Ambassador Dobrynin.
(c) President Fidel Castro.
(d) Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.

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).
(a) General Shoup.
(b) JFK.
(c) General LeMay.
(d) Secretary McNamara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that Russia only wanted to "give bread to Cuba in order to prevent hunger in that country" (34)?

2. After the announcement to the nation, how often would Ex Comm meet?

3. Robert describes the conflict in Cuba as one between two atomic nations. What are the two atomic nations he refers to?

4. What was one requirement of the blockade plan?

5. Against what strategy was the following argument used: It would be like "closing the door after the horse has left the barn" (28)?

(see the answer key)

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