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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 does "Ex Comm" stand for?
(a) Executing Communists.
(b) Executing Communication for the Cold War.
(c) Executive Committee of the National Security Council.
(d) Executive Communications with Cuba.

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

3. What is one effect of pressure, according to Robert?
(a) It causes everyone to cry.
(b) It leads to quitting.
(c) It makes everyone agree.
(d) It brings out unknown characteristics and strengths.

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

5. According to all of the discussions of removing missiles from Cuba, who would oversee the removal to be sure it was done?
(a) The OAS
(b) The U.N.
(c) Britain.
(d) The U.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said "I am not going to follow a course which will allow anyone to write a comparable book about this time, The Missiles of October" (98)?

2. What do men have the power to do today that they did not in past war making?

3. 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)?

4. What "committed American ground forces to what has become the longest war in our history" (102)?

5. Who wrote the note saying, "I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor" (24)?

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