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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. What was one recommendation from the military action plan?
(a) Permission granted by the UN.
(b) A warning sent to Khrushchev.
(c) Nuclear bombardment of Russia.
(d) Nuclear bombardment of Cuba.

2. According to Khrushchev, who are the only people who would provoke war in today's nuclear world?
(a) Morons and aggressors.
(b) Lunatics and suicides.
(c) Americans.
(d) Democrats.

3. Who was the ex-Chancellor of Germany at the outbreak of World War I?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Prince von Bulow.
(c) Joseph Stalin.
(d) Kristof Romanoff.

4. What position did Robert hold in the Kennedy administration?
(a) Secretary of Defense.
(b) Attorney General.
(c) Senator.
(d) Press Secretary.

5. What type of non-fiction is Thirteen Days?
(a) Biography.
(b) Textbook.
(c) Essay.
(d) Memoir.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Robert promise to do with his daughters on October 28th?

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

4. What did JFK order into the air at all times until the crisis was over?

5. Robert tells he once heard World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons. What then would the next war be fought with?

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