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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. Who was U Thant?
(a) Secretary of Defense.
(b) Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations.
(c) Soviet Chairman.
(d) Acting Secretary General of the United Nations.

2. Who said "He can't do that to me" (115) when he learned that missiles were being placed in Cuba?
(a) Lyndon Johnson.
(b) JFK.
(c) Theodore Sorensen.
(d) Robert.

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) Thodore Sorensen.
(b) Robert McNamara.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Thomas Schelling.

4. What "committed American ground forces to what has become the longest war in our history" (102)?
(a) The Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
(b) The Bay of Pigs.
(c) The Cuban Missile Crisis.
(d) The invasion of Cambodia.

5. Who urged the President to release photos of missiles to the UN for publication?
(a) Pierre Salinger
(b) Adlai Stevenson.
(c) Ted Sorensen.
(d) Dovid Ormsby Gore.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many countries does the Secretary of State have to deal with?

2. How many ships either stopped or turned back before reaching the blockade?

3. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what role did Congress play?

4. Who said, "they, no more than we, can let these things go by without doing something. They can't after all their statements, permit us to take out their missiles, kill a lot of Russians, and then do nothing. If they don't take action in Cuba, they certainly will in Berlin" (28)?

5. While Ex Comm was making final decisions regarding their recommendations, JFK was where?

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