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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the main reason that the President did not attend all of the Ex Comm meetings?
(a) Important diplomatic duties.
(b) Busy schedule.
(c) To avoid arousing suspicion.
(d) Evasion of responsibility.

2. What was one requirement of the blockade plan?
(a) All ship that enter the blockade be inspected.
(b) A meeting with the Organization of American States.
(c) That no ships could pass the blockade.
(d) A promise to withdraw weapons from Berlin.

3. What does Robert believe often leads to war?
(a) Pride.
(b) Hate.
(c) Greed.
(d) Prudence.

4. What did JFK read aloud at a meeting with a Russian representative?
(a) Khrushchev's statement from September 19th.
(b) His own statement from September 4th.
(c) The Declaration of Independence.
(d) The Bible.

5. Robert describes the conflict in Cuba as one between two atomic nations. What are the two atomic nations he refers to?
(a) US and USSR.
(b) US and Germany.
(c) US and Cuba.
(d) Berlin and Cuba.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ex Comm believe would happen if they put a blockade around Cuba?

2. Who did Robert admire and who also began attending meetings after the meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff?

3. What did Robert sarcastically claim to be the advantage to being wrong in the case of military action?

4. What was JFK's feeling after meeting with a Russian representative after learning about missiles in Cuba?

5. Who did JFK have a meeting with that was scheduled before the information about Cuba had been found?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does JFK bring up the book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman?

2. How does Berlin factor into the decision making about the Cuban Missile Crisis?

3. Why does RFK defend Adlai Stevenson's suggestion?

4. What did the military and JFK do to respond to the submarine situation?

5. When was Congress told, and how did Congress react to the news of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

6. What did Ambassador Dobrynin provide as evidence that USSR would not be a threat to the United States?

7. How did Ex Comm formulate their recommendations to the President?

8. What other actions did the U.S. take besides the blockade?

9. What was ironic about JFK's meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrea Gromyko?

10. Why is the "great danger and risk in all of this . . . a miscalculation -- a mistake in judgment" (49)?

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