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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 did the Joint Chiefs of Staff view the missile crisis as?
(a) The occasion to start war.
(b) A chance to oust Castro.
(c) Revenge for Pearl Harbor.
(d) An opportunity to act like Tojo.

2. According to Khrushchev, who are the only people who would provoke war in today's nuclear world?
(a) Democrats.
(b) Morons and aggressors.
(c) Lunatics and suicides.
(d) Americans.

3. What was the main reason that the President did not attend all of the Ex Comm meetings?
(a) Evasion of responsibility.
(b) Important diplomatic duties.
(c) To avoid arousing suspicion.
(d) Busy schedule.

4. What was the name of the first tanker to reach the barrier?
(a) Bucharest.
(b) Gagarin.
(c) Komiles.
(d) Essex.

5. Who testified to Congress in 1964 that "in the first hour [of all-out nuclear war] one hundred million Americans and one hundred million Russians would be killed" (104)?
(a) Robert McNamara.
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) Theodore Sorensen.
(d) Thomas Schelling.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Neustadt and Allison, what does a President need in a time of crisis?

2. What would have happened, according to Neustadt and Allison, if JFK had accepted Soviet action in Cuba?

3. What type of non-fiction is Thirteen Days?

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

5. What does Robert believe often leads to war?

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