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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Thirteen Days, pgs. 106-150.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Act "formally acknowledged the close ties of foreign, military, economic policy" (127)?
(a) The Munich Agreement of 1938.
(b) Arms Control and Disarmament Act of 1955.
(c) National Defense Act of 1962.
(d) National Security Act of 1947.

2. According to the afterword, there was the potential that what may have triggered nuclear war?
(a) Accidents.
(b) Accusations.
(c) Past transgressions.
(d) Spy networking.

3. Who wrote, "there is just no foreseeable route by which the United States and Soviet Union could become involved in a major nuclear war" (104)?
(a) Robert McNamara.
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) Thomas Schelling.
(d) Thodore Sorensen.

4. What was the lesson that Neustadt and Allison are not sure JFK learned from the Bay of Pigs?
(a) Do not back down.
(b) Always ask an expert.
(c) Defend your men.
(d) Never rely on experts.

5. What animal does Khrushchev compare Russia and the U.S. to when he says they will be exterminated in the case of a war?
(a) Doves.
(b) Hawkes.
(c) Moles.
(d) Rats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the first tanker to reach the barrier?

2. According to Robert in "The importance of placing ourselves in the other country's shoes," why was JFK reluctant to attack the missile sites after a U.S. U-2 was shot down?

3. Who presented the United States case to the United Nations?

4. What event happened two years before the Cuban Missile Crisis and effected JFK's decision making?

5. What did the Joint Chiefs of Staff view the missile crisis as?

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