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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Robert tells that JFK felt that if what had happened could be considered a triumph, it was only one for who?
(a) The Soviet Union.
(b) America.
(c) The next generation.
(d) Cuba.

3. 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 devil's advocate.
(c) Lobbyists.
(d) A sponsor.

4. According to all of the discussions of removing missiles from Cuba, who would oversee the removal to be sure it was done?
(a) Britain.
(b) The OAS
(c) The U.S.
(d) The U.N.

5. 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) Robert.
(b) JFK.
(c) Barbara Tuchman.
(d) Prince von Bulow.

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

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

8. 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) Adlai Stevenson.
(d) V. A. Zorin.

9. Who wrote the letter responding to Khrushchev's first letter?
(a) Robert and Sorensen.
(b) The Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(c) The State Department.
(d) JFK and Robert.

10. Who handles all international problems for the U.S.?
(a) The Chief of Staff.
(b) The Secretary of State.
(c) The ambassadors.
(d) The CIA.

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

12. 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) Don Wilson.
(b) Pierre Salinger.
(c) V. A. Zorin.
(d) Adlai Stevenson.

13. Who said, "I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction" (67)?
(a) Khrushchev.
(b) General McCone.
(c) JFK.
(d) Dobrynin.

14. How many passengers were on the East German Passenger ship that approached the blockade?
(a) Fifty.
(b) One thousand.
(c) One hundered.
(d) Fifteen hundered.

15. Who wrote, "there is just no foreseeable route by which the United States and Soviet Union could become involved in a major nuclear war" (104)?
(a) Thodore Sorensen.
(b) Robert McNamara.
(c) Thomas Schelling.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Afterword, what did victory mean pre-1945?

2. Whose plane was shot down while flying reconnaissance over 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 many destroyers did the U.S. put in Caribbean waters?

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

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