Quiz

1. Based on the information in the blog, how are journalists portrayed?

a. Agenda-setters

b. Murderers

c. Puppets

d. All of the above

2. Robert DeNiro plays a film producer.

a. True

b. False

3. This movie was released just _________ before President Clinton was impeached.

a. Two years

b. Three months

c. 8 weeks

d. In 1998

4. Kirsten Dunst plays a journalist named Winifred Ames.

a. True

b. False

5. “When there is no good news….”

a. Make it up

b. Throw shoes

c. There is no news

6. What media effects were discussed in the blog?

a. Persuasion

b. Agenda-setting

c. Both a and b

d. None of the above

7. In one of the movie clips, Brean and the producer are throwing shoes onto a telephone wire. Why is this significant to the audience in the movie?

a. It symbolizes how the people feel about the President.

b. It symbolizes what the people think about the media.

c. It symbolizes the hope of a safe return of a war hero.

d. It symbolizes the name of a soldier and the terrible treatment he was given.

8. Dustin Hoffman loses his job at the end of the movie.

a. True

b. False

9. Schumann, even though he is a war criminal, is given a soldier’s burial.

a. True

b. False

10. The President wins his re-election.

a. True

b. False

Answers: 1-c,2-b,3-d,4-b,5-a,6-c,7-d,8-b,9-a,10-b