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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 did Robert promise to do with his daughters on October 28th?
2. According to the Afterword, the Cuban Missile Crisis is important on how many levels?
3. In a conversation between JFK and Robert, how far did JFK say that he wanted to push the Russians?
4. When the Soviet Union refused to acknowledge the blockade, how often were low level flights conducted over Cuba?
5. Who handles all international problems for the U.S.?
Short Essay Questions
1. Analyze the simile "the leaders who lived through the crisis felt what it was like to peer over the precipice" (104)?
2. When the crisis was over, why did Kennedy not make a statement assigning credit for the success? And why did he instruct all involved not to provide one either?
3. According to Robert, how did time before the crisis was publicized effect the President's decisions?
4. In the letter received October 26th, what does Khrushchev claim is the reason he sent weapons to Cuba?
5. What made the prospect of war unbearable to JFK?
6. Why did JFK choose the Marucla for the first vessel to be boarded?
7. In the letter drafted by Robert and Sorenson in response to Khrushchev's letter received October 26th, what is the "first ingredient" (79) to a peaceful arrangement? Why?
8. After the Soviet's agree to a stand down, JFK makes an analogy between himself and Abraham Lincoln. What does he say and what does it mean?
9. What is JFK referencing when he says that "we are now in an entirely new ball game" (74)? What has changed?
10. Khrushchev uses several metaphors in his letter to JFK. What is one metaphor and what does it mean?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Robert Kennedy, Richard Neustadt, and Graham Allison all identify isolationism to be a problem. In an essay, identify why people would desire isolationism and determine if isolationism is even an option in today's world. Why or why not? Make a conclusion at the end of your determining if isolationism is truly a good idea or not? Use citations from Thirteen Days in your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
The extended metaphor of a knot being tied illustrates the tensions that were forming between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In an essay, analyze the metaphor in detail. Is it an effective metaphor?
Essay Topic 3
The prospect of nuclear holocaust haunts several of the men involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis (and on both sides). In an essay, identify who felt strongly about nuclear holocaust and why. What is involved in a nuclear war? How many would die? Was nuclear holocaust actually possible? Use the novel to support your conclusions.
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