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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) Secretary McNamara.
(b) General Shoup.
(c) JFK.
(d) General LeMay.

2. Who did JFK believe should take public credit for the end of the missile crisis?
(a) Noone.
(b) Robert.
(c) The Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(d) Himself.

3. What did Dobrynin say the Cubans resented when Robert meets with him after the U-2 was shot down?
(a) U.S. democracy.
(b) The Bay of Pigs.
(c) Violation of Cuban air space.
(d) Socialism.

4. What was Robert's main argument against a surprise attack?
(a) Cowardice of surprise.
(b) Ineffectiveness of attack.
(c) Christian morality.
(d) America's traditions and history.

5. What word would best complete the following quote? "No action is taken against a powerful adversary in a _____________" (96).
(a) Benign manner.
(b) War.
(c) Vacuum.
(d) Nuclear world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert believe had a "major psychological and practical effect on the Russians and changed our position . . . into a country acting in accordance with twenty allies legally protecting their position" (92)?

2. Who told an interviewer that "the fourteen people involved were very significant . . . If six of them had been President of the U.S., I think that the world might have been blown up" (121)?

3. Which war do Neustadt and Allison believe will shape future relations between Congress and the President in regards to war making?

4. Who was approached by a Soviet Embassy official to offer a proposal for removing the missiles from Cuba?

5. 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)?

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