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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose job does Robert believe is getting bigger and is in actuality five jobs under one title?
(a) The Secretary of State.
(b) The Head of State.
(c) The Presidency.
(d) The CIA.

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

3. What did Robert promise to do with his daughters on October 28th?
(a) Buy Halloween costumes.
(b) Attend the theater.
(c) Go to a Horse Show.
(d) Go shopping.

4. Which country does Robert identify that originally doubted the U.S.'s position regarding Cuba?
(a) Germany.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Brazil.
(d) France.

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

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

7. According to the Afterword, the Cuban Missile Crisis is important on how many levels?
(a) Three.
(b) Ten.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

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

9. Who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) J. Edgar. Hoover.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) John Scali.

10. Who was the ex-Chancellor of Germany at the outbreak of World War I?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Kristof Romanoff.
(c) Joseph Stalin.
(d) Prince von Bulow.

11. Who does JFK write to after the Russians agree to remove missiles from Cuba?
(a) Mrs. Anderson.
(b) Mrs. Onasis.
(c) Khrushchev.
(d) Castro.

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

13. 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?
(a) Too many innocents would die.
(b) The Cubans would attack
(c) The Russians would be forced to retaliate.
(d) It would humiliate Castro.

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

15. What does the change in attitude from the letter received on the 26th and the letter received on the 27th suggest?
(a) Deception.
(b) Translation mistakes.
(c) Desire for war.
(d) Soviet confusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was George Ball?

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

3. 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)?

4. Who wrote the Afterword for Thirteen Days?

5. Who was Tommy Thompson?

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