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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What piece of information caused JFK to favor the blockade?
2. What was the "legal foundation" (40) for the blockade?
3. What did JFK read aloud at a meeting with a Russian representative?
4. What was the main reason that the President did not attend all of the Ex Comm meetings?
5. Who said, "It is exactly what I would have done . . . a great government such as yours does not act without evidence" (41)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What information did the Intelligence Community have about the missiles in September, but did not inform the President about at that time? Why were they not passed on?
2. When was Congress told, and how did Congress react to the news of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
3. Why does RFK defend Adlai Stevenson's suggestion?
4. Which countries immediately supported the U.S. in the decision for a blockade? Why did JFK favor a blockade over a surgical air strike?
5. After the blockade takes effect, RFK meets with Dobrynin again. What do they discuss?
6. What was ironic about JFK's meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrea Gromyko?
7. Why does RFK slip the President a note saying "I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor" (25)? How do the situations compare?
8. How did the US obtain their information about Russian activity in Cuba?
9. What was one argument against a blockade?
10. How did RFK feel about his fellow members of in Ex Comm?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Cuban Missile Crisis presented itself as a first ever occurrence for the U.S., and modern technology played a role in how it was handled. Identify three ways that technology effected how the Cuban Missile Crisis was handled and why it had this effect.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the powers of Congress and the Presidency using the JFK administration in Thirteen Days as a primary example.
Essay Topic 3
The President is only a man but his office is highly symbolic. In an essay, discuss at least three concepts that the President symbolizes. How does he symbolize these concepts? JFK in particular? What did JFK do to reinforce these conceptions?
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