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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 presented the argument for a blockade?
(a) Bob McNamara.
(b) Dean Rusk.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) John McCone.

2. What two items were added to the embargo list after the successful boarding of the Marucla?
(a) Petroleum oil and lubricants.
(b) Weapons and steele.
(c) Baby food and bread.
(d) Gasoline and automobiles.

3. 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)?
(a) Theodore Sorensen.
(b) Thomas Schelling.
(c) Robert McNamara.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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

5. According to the afterword, what would choosing nuclear war mean?
(a) Mutual homicide.
(b) Rising hostilities.
(c) Peace for remaining countries.
(d) Mutual superiority.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a conversation between JFK and Robert, how far did JFK say that he wanted to push the Russians?

2. What possibility does JFK say everyone must accept if there is an invasion of Cuba?

3. What is the crisis a microcosm for according to the authors of the Afterword?

4. Who did JFK have a meeting with that was scheduled before the information about Cuba had been found?

5. Who said, "It is exactly what I would have done . . . a great government such as yours does not act without evidence" (41)?

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