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Study Stuff for MCA Examinations - NIMCET
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Previous Year Question (PYQs)
Read the following passage and answer the questions, based on what is stated or implied in the
passage: Declassification of government documents has shed new light on the events comprising the
Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Prior to the accessibility of these records, the only source of
account of the Crisis for scholars and historians were the personal memoirs and narratives of the
officials who served under Kennedy and Krushchev during this period. Many of declassified
documents are transcriptions and notes of meetings between members of the CIA and President
Kennedy‟s Cabinet, as well as the President himself. The revelations in these documents have
demonstrated the inadvertent inaccuracies and intended obscurities inherent in the first-person
narratives of the Crisis, and has aided historians from all three countries involved in the Crisis to get
a more authentic representation of what truly transpired, and for what reasons. Of perhaps the most
interest to historians are declassified correspondence between John F. Kennedy and Nikita
Krushchev that challenge the idea that the height of the Crisis extended only over the course of
thirteen days. Indeed, these letters indicate that the Crisis was far from resolved by Khrushchev‟s
October 28 decision to withdraw the Soviet Missiles from Cuba; instead it endured far into the
following month, while slept fitfully under the illusion of peace.
According to the passage, which of the following statements (s) is/are true of the Cubian Missile
Crisis?
I. The Crisis is still shrouded in mystery
II. The memoirs of those closely involved in the Crisis were not entirely factual
III. The crisis spanned thirteen days
Solution
Statement I is false because the passage says declassified documents have clarified events.
Statement II is true because memoirs contained inaccuracies and obscurities.
Statement III is false because the crisis lasted longer than thirteen days.
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