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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 the change in attitude from the letter received on the 26th and the letter received on the 27th suggest?
(a) Desire for war.
(b) Translation mistakes.
(c) Deception.
(d) Soviet confusion.

2. Who said "I am not going to follow a course which will allow anyone to write a comparable book about this time, The Missiles of October" (98)?
(a) Robert.
(b) JFK.
(c) Prince von Bulow.
(d) Barbara Tuchman.

3. Who sent messages praising Russia and castigating the U.S.?
(a) David Ormsby Gore.
(b) Bertrand Russell.
(c) Fidel Castro.
(d) Ted Sorensen.

4. According to the Afterword, the Cuban Missile Crisis is important on how many levels?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Ten.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What paradox does Neustadt and Allison claim exists that the Constitution attempted to solve?

2. Whose plane was shot down while flying reconnaissance over Cuba?

3. 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)?

4. Who does JFK meet with whom Robert claims he "trusted implicitly" (51)?

5. Who said, "I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction" (67)?

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