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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. Who publicly confronted Soviet Union Ambassador V. A. Zorin?
(a) Bertrand Russell.
(b) Ted Sorensen.
(c) Adlai Stevenson.
(d) David Ormsby Gore.

2. When looking at the first photographs of the missile bases in Cuba, what did JFK say it looked like?
(a) Swimming pool.
(b) Soccer field.
(c) Football field.
(d) Farm.

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

4. What did JFK ask in a letter to Khrushchev after ordering the blockade?
(a) All shipes to turn back.
(b) All missiles to be handed over.
(c) For Khrushchev to observe the quarantine.
(d) For Khrushchev to leave Berlin out of their deliberations.

5. Who said, "You are in a pretty bad fix, Mr. President" (29)?
(a) General Shoup.
(b) General LeMay.
(c) Robert F. Kennedy.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggested that the US take military action against Cuba for America's safety, not knowing about the missiles?

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

3. What did Adlai Stevenson suggest that offended many members of Ex Comm?

4. What was one recommendation from the military action plan?

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

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