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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote the Afterword for Thirteen Days?
(a) Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
(b) Theodore Sorensen.
(c) David Schoenbrun.
(d) Richard Neustadt and Graham Allison.

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

5. How many destroyers did the U.S. put in Caribbean waters?
(a) 25
(b) 12.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

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

7. Who said "we are now in an entirely new ball game" (74)?
(a) JFK.
(b) Anderson.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) McNamara.

8. Who was George Ball?
(a) The Secretary of State.
(b) Former Ambassador to Cuba.
(c) Chief of Staff.
(d) The Under Secretary of State.

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

10. 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) V. A. Zorin.
(b) Andrei Gromyko.
(c) Don Wilson.
(d) Adlai Stevenson.

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

12. Whose plane was shot down while flying reconnaissance over Cuba?
(a) General McNamara.
(b) John Kennedy, Jr.
(c) Secretary Rusk.
(d) Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr.

13. What possibility does JFK say everyone must accept if there is an invasion of Cuba?
(a) The Cubans may surrender immediately.
(b) The U.S. may be unsuccessful.
(c) A missile may be fired at the U.S.
(d) The Russians may immediately fire nuclear weapons.

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

15. Who was Tommy Thompson?
(a) Chief of Staff.
(b) Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
(c) Secretary of State.
(d) Former Ambassador to Cuba.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who handles all international problems for the U.S.?

2. What does Robert claim can "best be judged by conflict, by debate" (86)?

3. Why does Khrushchev claim the Soviet Union has placed missiles in Cuba?

4. What was the name of the first ship boarded at the blockade?

5. What does Robert suggest the President use to get an opposite opinion if no one else will offer it?

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