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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the "final lesson" (95) learned from the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) Hold out until the last minute.
(b) See the opponents' perspective.
(c) Push the opponent into a corner.
(d) Retreat when necessary.

2. What does Robert suggest the President use to get an opposite opinion if no one else will offer it?
(a) Random uninterested parties.
(b) A sponsor.
(c) A devil's advocate.
(d) Lobbyists.

3. In a conversation between JFK and Robert, how far did JFK say that he wanted to push the Russians?
(a) To the brink of war.
(b) To the precipice of no turning back.
(c) Not one inch farther than required.
(d) He did not want to push them at all.

4. Robert tells he once heard World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons. What then would the next war be fought with?
(a) Swords and cannons.
(b) Guns and knives.
(c) Atomic weapons.
(d) Sticks and stones.

5. What was different about the letter received on the morning of October 27th from the letter received October 26th?
(a) More apologetic.
(b) More formal.
(c) More cooperative.
(d) Less aggressive.

6. What hit the U-2 plane that was flying reconnaissance over Cuba?
(a) Bullets.
(b) SAM.
(c) Starbursts.
(d) Torpedo.

7. Who would not allow Russian planes to refuel or land in Dakar?
(a) The U.S. Navy.
(b) Fidel Castro.
(c) President Sekou Toure.
(d) President Leopold Senghor.

8. When JFK says, "this is the night I should go to the theater" (84), what famous historical figure is he referencing?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) Harry S. Truman.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

9. What did the ex-Chancellor of Germany at the outbreak of the First World War ask his successor?
(a) "What will you do to stop it?"
(b) "Where did we go wrong?"
(c) "How did it all happen?"
(d) "How do you change things now?"

10. According to Khrushchev, who are the only people who would provoke war in today's nuclear world?
(a) Lunatics and suicides.
(b) Morons and aggressors.
(c) Americans.
(d) Democrats.

11. What countries were supporting the U.S. and recommending that the U.S. not give in to Soviet demands?
(a) U.N.
(b) AXIS.
(c) HOA.
(d) NATO.

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

13. What was the name of the first ship boarded at the blockade?
(a) John Pierce.
(b) Kremlin.
(c) Bucharest.
(d) Marucla.

14. What do men have the power to do today that they did not in past war making?
(a) Destroy mankind.
(b) Start wars without involving other countries.
(c) Save the world.
(d) Fight without killing anyone.

15. According to the Afterword, what did victory mean pre-1945?
(a) New land to govern.
(b) Occupation of another country.
(c) Elimination of the enemy.
(d) Disarming the enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose plane was shot down while flying reconnaissance over Cuba?

2. Robert tells that JFK felt that if what had happened could be considered a triumph, it was only one for who?

3. Which country does Robert identify that originally doubted the U.S.'s position regarding Cuba?

4. How did Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. die?

5. Who would analyze Khrushchev's personal letter and make recommendations on October 27th?

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