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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 63-88.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Ex Comm was making final decisions regarding their recommendations, JFK was where?
(a) Russia.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

2. Who presented the United States case to the United Nations?
(a) David Shoup and John LeMay.
(b) Adlai Stevenson and John McCloy.
(c) JFK and Robert Kennedy.
(d) John McCone and Robert McNamara.

3. Who said, "I am not in an American courtroom, sir, and therefore I do not wish to answer a question that is put to me in the fashion in which a prosecutor puts questions" (58)?
(a) Andrei Gromyko.
(b) Don Wilson.
(c) V. A. Zorin.
(d) Adlai Stevenson.

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

5. Who was JFK communicating with on a daily basis?
(a) The OAS.
(b) Khrushechev.
(c) Robert.
(d) U Thant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who intervened with the newspapers to delay the report of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

2. What did Ex Comm believe would happen if they put a blockade around Cuba?

3. What did Dobrynin say the Cubans resented when Robert meets with him after the U-2 was shot down?

4. When Robert meets with Dobrynin after the blockade is put into effect, what does Dobrynin say the ships will do?

5. According to all of the discussions of removing missiles from Cuba, who would oversee the removal to be sure it was done?

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