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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What animal does Khrushchev compare Russia and the U.S. to when he says they will be exterminated in the case of a war?
(a) Hawkes.
(b) Rats.
(c) Moles.
(d) Doves.

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

4. 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) The next generation.
(c) America.
(d) Cuba.

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

6. When the Soviet Union refused to acknowledge the blockade, how often were low level flights conducted over Cuba?
(a) Five times a day.
(b) Every hour.
(c) Every two hours.
(d) Once a day.

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

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

9. Where did JFK say, "Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating defeat or a nuclear war" (97)?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) American University.
(d) Cornell University.

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

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

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

13. 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.

14. What did JFK believe was the likelihood of nuclear war when dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) One in ten.
(b) Ninety percent.
(c) Fifty - fifty.
(d) One in three.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

3. Who said "war is impossible . . . there is no alternative to peace" (104)?

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

5. Who is supposed to declare war according to the Constitution?

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