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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. 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)?
(a) Acheson.
(b) JFK.
(c) Sorensen.
(d) Robert.

2. What was the "legal foundation" (40) for the blockade?
(a) The UN regulations.
(b) The Cuban Peace Treaty.
(c) The OAS Charter.
(d) The OSHA regulations.

3. According to Robert in "Some of the things we learned . . .," what must a President have access to?
(a) Nuclear weapons.
(b) Ambassadors.
(c) Journalists.
(d) People with expertise and knowledge.

4. What piece of information caused JFK to favor the blockade?
(a) No guarantee of all missiles being destroyed.
(b) No guarantee that American lives would not be lost.
(c) Russian promise to use nuclear weapons against Berlin.
(d) The Russian demand to remove bombs from Turkey.

5. How do the authors of the afterword describe the following quote: "In a world of mutual superiority, neither nation can win a nuclear war, but each must be willing to risk losing" (107)?
(a) Nuclear paradox.
(b) Justifiable reasoning.
(c) Code of Ethics.
(d) Riddle of the Sphinx.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had the authority to oversee the implementation of a blockade?

2. What hit the U-2 plane that was flying reconnaissance over Cuba?

3. Where is there a sign that states "in the nuclear age, superpowers make war like porcupines make love -- carefully" (108)?

4. 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)?

5. What does Robert suggest the President use to get an opposite opinion if no one else will offer it?

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