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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. Who does JFK meet with whom Robert claims he "trusted implicitly" (51)?
(a) Ambassador Dobrynin.
(b) Ambassador David Ormsby-Gore.
(c) Secretary John McNamara.
(d) Secretary Adlai Stevenson.

2. When the Soviet Union refused to acknowledge the blockade, how often were low level flights conducted over Cuba?
(a) Once a day.
(b) Every hour.
(c) Five times a day.
(d) Every two hours.

3. Who was approached by a Soviet Embassy official to offer a proposal for removing the missiles from Cuba?
(a) Robert.
(b) John Scali.
(c) JFK.
(d) Sorensen.

4. How many Russian submarines were in the Caribbean after the blockade took effect?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

5. Whose plane was shot down while flying reconnaissance over Cuba?
(a) Secretary Rusk.
(b) Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr.
(c) General McNamara.
(d) John Kennedy, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main reason that the President did not attend all of the Ex Comm meetings?

2. Who said, "if the Russians' response makes a military action or invasion inevitable, I want to be able to feel that we will not have to waste any days having to get ready" (47).

3. Who, due to his role in the government, might have been the leader of Ex Comm if he had been able to attend more meetings?

4. When looking at the first photographs of the missile bases in Cuba, what did JFK say it looked like?

5. What book had JFK recently read that had to do with miscalculations leading to war?

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