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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 106-150.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert suggest the President use to get an opposite opinion if no one else will offer it?
(a) Lobbyists.
(b) Random uninterested parties.
(c) A devil's advocate.
(d) A sponsor.

2. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what role did Congress play?
(a) They declared war.
(b) Some were members of Ex Comm.
(c) They were informed.
(d) They helped formulate ideas.

3. What did the Joint Chief of Staff suggest the U.S. do to respond to the letter sent October 27th?
(a) Refuse any negotiations in a letter.
(b) Strengthen the blockade.
(c) Military action.
(d) Meet with Khrushchev personally.

4. What is the crisis a microcosm for according to the authors of the Afterword?
(a) The inevitability of nuclear war.
(b) Problems of the nuclear age.
(c) The workings of democracy.
(d) Problems of the modern American Presidency.

5. Who presented the argument for a blockade?
(a) Dean Rusk.
(b) Robert Kennedy.
(c) John McCone.
(d) Bob McNamara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the letter responding to Khrushchev's first letter?

2. Who told an interviewer that "the fourteen people involved were very significant . . . If six of them had been President of the U.S., I think that the world might have been blown up" (121)?

3. Neustadt and Allison suggest that because the Soviets were willing to to take a reckless step by putting missiles in Cuba, they did not appreciate what?

4. What did Secretary McNamara do, despite his dissent to the strategy?

5. Who said, "You are in a pretty bad fix, Mr. President" (29)?

(see the answer key)

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