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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 said, "if the Russians' response makes a military action or invasion inevitable, I want to be able to feel that we will not have to waste any days having to get ready" (47).
(a) General Shoup.
(b) JFK.
(c) General LeMay.
(d) Secretary McNamara.

2. Where is there a sign that states "in the nuclear age, superpowers make war like porcupines make love -- carefully" (108)?
(a) State Department.
(b) War Room.
(c) Oval Office.
(d) The Supreme Court.

3. What three U.S. wars were never declared?
(a) Korean, Vietnam, and Civil War.
(b) The Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and WWI.
(c) WWI, WWII, and Vietnam.
(d) The Mexican War, French-Indian War, and the Afghan War.

4. What piece of information caused JFK to favor the blockade?
(a) No guarantee of all missiles being destroyed.
(b) Russian promise to use nuclear weapons against Berlin.
(c) The Russian demand to remove bombs from Turkey.
(d) No guarantee that American lives would not be lost.

5. Who did JFK have a meeting with that was scheduled before the information about Cuba had been found?
(a) Ambassador Dobrynin.
(b) Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev.
(c) Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
(d) President Fidel Castro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one reason that the President may not include Congress in his decision making?

2. Who was JFK communicating with on a daily basis?

3. Who was Tommy Thompson?

4. What did JFK read aloud at a meeting with a Russian representative?

5. Who told Ambassador Dobrynin about the President's intended speech?

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