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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. Why did the Assistant for National Security Affairs wait to inform the President about missiles in Cuba?
(a) To let the President get a good night's sleep.
(b) He did not want to admit it was happening.
(c) In order to check facts.
(d) To buy time.

2. Who wrote the note saying, "I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor" (24)?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Robert F. Kennedy.
(d) John McCone.

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

4. After making his decision, when was the President's speech to the nation scheduled for?
(a) Monday evening.
(b) Sunday evening.
(c) Saturday afternoon.
(d) Tuesday morning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Robert meets with Dobrynin after the blockade is put into effect, what does Dobrynin say the ships will do?

2. Who testified to Congress in 1964 that "in the first hour [of all-out nuclear war] one hundred million Americans and one hundred million Russians would be killed" (104)?

3. Why is Constitutional reform granting Congress more power over declaring war unlikely?

4. 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?

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

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