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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 89-106.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many passengers were on the East German Passenger ship that approached the blockade?
(a) Fifteen hundered.
(b) One thousand.
(c) Fifty.
(d) One hundered.

2. What is the crisis a microcosm for according to the authors of the Afterword?
(a) The inevitability of nuclear war.
(b) Problems of the nuclear age.
(c) The workings of democracy.
(d) Problems of the modern American Presidency.

3. How many ships either stopped or turned back before reaching the blockade?
(a) 4.
(b) 25.
(c) 10.
(d) 14.

4. Who was concerned about how the U.S. would convince the rest of the world that the blockade was necessary and legal?
(a) The Chancellor of West Germany.
(b) The Prime Minister of Canada.
(c) The leaders in OAS.
(d) The French President.

5. After making his decision, when was the President's speech to the nation scheduled for?
(a) Sunday evening.
(b) Monday evening.
(c) Tuesday morning.
(d) Saturday afternoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who unanimously pushed for immediate military action on Thursday October 18th?

2. Who publicly confronted Soviet Union Ambassador V. A. Zorin?

3. What animal does Khrushchev compare Russia and the U.S. to when he says they will be exterminated in the case of a war?

4. What was JFK's feeling after meeting with a Russian representative after learning about missiles in Cuba?

5. Where did JFK say, "Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating defeat or a nuclear war" (97)?

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