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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Joint Chief of Staff suggest the U.S. do to respond to the letter sent October 27th?
(a) Military action.
(b) Meet with Khrushchev personally.
(c) Strengthen the blockade.
(d) Refuse any negotiations in a letter.

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

3. Who was JFK communicating with on a daily basis?
(a) Robert.
(b) Khrushechev.
(c) U Thant.
(d) The OAS.

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

5. Who said, " You are in the courtroom of world opinion right now, and you can answer yes or no. You have denied that they exist, and I want to know whether or I have understood you correctly" (58)?
(a) Pierre Salinger.
(b) Adlai Stevenson.
(c) V. A. Zorin.
(d) Don Wilson.

6. 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) Nuclear world.
(d) Vacuum.

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

8. 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) Fight without killing anyone.
(d) Save the world.

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

10. Why does Khrushchev claim the Soviet Union has placed missiles in Cuba?
(a) To prevent the U.S. from invading.
(b) To provoke the U.S. into war.
(c) To potect the Soviet people in Cuba.
(d) To fire upon all major U.S. cities.

11. 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) "How do you change things now?"
(c) "How did it all happen?"
(d) "Where did we go wrong?"

12. Who said, "I am not in an American courtroom, sir, and therefore I do not wish to answer a question that is put to me in the fashion in which a prosecutor puts questions" (58)?
(a) Andrei Gromyko.
(b) Don Wilson.
(c) V. A. Zorin.
(d) Adlai Stevenson.

13. According to Robert in "Some of the things we learned . . .," what must a President have access to?
(a) Journalists.
(b) People with expertise and knowledge.
(c) Ambassadors.
(d) Nuclear weapons.

14. Who said "I am not going to follow a course which will allow anyone to write a comparable book about this time, The Missiles of October" (98)?
(a) Barbara Tuchman.
(b) Robert.
(c) JFK.
(d) Prince von Bulow.

15. Why did JFK originally want to remove the missiles from Turkey?
(a) They were obsolete.
(b) He did not want to anger the Soviets.
(c) They were dangerous to world peace.
(d) He wanted to invade Turkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the "final lesson" (95) learned from the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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

3. 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?

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

5. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what role did Congress play?

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