WorksheetsThe Post - movie
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
At the time the Pentagon Papers were published, this was the publisher of the Washington Post:
Ben Bradlee
Katharine Graham
Bob Woodward
Philip Graham
In "The Post" Tom Hanks portrays this managing editor:
Ben Bradlee
Katharine Graham
Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
Katharine Graham was a personal friend of this defense secretary who commissioned the study that would be known as the Pentagon Papers:
Ben Bradlee
John F. Kennedy
Robert McNamara
Richard Nixon
In the movie, both Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham discuss whether it was journalistically ethical for them to have become too friendly with government officials. Bradlee talks about his friendship with this person:
Bob Woodward
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Bob Haldeman
The government took the newspapers to court to try to prevent further publication of the Pentagon Papers. This legal principle is called:
Censorship
Libel
Treason
Prior restraint
The movie focuses on the Washington Post, but this newspaper was the first to publish the Pentagon Papers:
Boston Globe
Los Angeles Times
The New York Times
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
At the same time she was grappling with the Pentagon Papers, Katharine Graham was dealing with this on the business side of the newspaper:
Making Post stock available publicly
The business failure of one of the Post-owned TV stations
A potential hostile takeover by another media conglomerate
Deciding whether to buy more radio stations
This news staffer at the Post is responsible for getting the Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg:
Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
Ben Bagdikian
Ben Bradlee
In the Pentagon Papers case, the U.S. Supreme Court:
Turned down the newspapers' request to continue to publish the Pentagon Papers
Unanimously decided in favor of the Nixon administration
Decided not to take the case, leaving the final decision to the lower courts
Decided in favor of the newspapers, allowing the continued publication of the papers
At the end of the movie "The Post," a scene foreshadows the newspaper's continued involvement in providing important information to the public. The case the scene foreshadowed was:
Reporting on the fall of Saigon
The Watergate investigation
The MeToo movement
Investigation of pedophile priests in the Catholic Church
