Cameron = Redhead        Danberry = HS football star   Neal = Puck   Keating = Robin Williams
Dalton = Smug genius     Knox =  Girl friend    Todd = shy roommate      Nolan = Headmaster 
     
INSTRUCTIONS:  Answer the following questions on your SCANTRON

1.   Weber lists three kinds of AUTHORITY.  Which kind of authority did Neal's father have:
     a.  legal-rational            b.  charismatic     *c.  traditional

2.   Which kind of power did Mr. Nolan embody when he held the hearing to decide on 
	responsibility for Neal's death:
     *a.  legal-rational            b.  charismatic     c.  traditional

3.   As a teacher, Keating represented traditional authority but his teaching
     methods also bestowed what other kind of authority as far as his students
	 were concerned?
     a.  legal-rational            b.  charismatic      *c.  traditional

4.   Durkheim spoke of SOCIAL FACTS. Of those below, which had the highest Reality Quotient:
     a.   The boys at chapel 	    	*b. The boys playing soccer
			c.   The boys in their room

5.   The school, in the movie, has an important effect on:
     *a. tracking young men into elite occupations
     b. teaching young men to love art, theater and poetry
     c. isolating young men from the temptations of sex and drugs

6.   Which kind of moral theory did Mr. Nolan embody when he fired Keating:
     *a. Kohlberg's theory of principled behavior
     b. Gilligan's theory that the highest morality is concern for people
     c. Christian morality of forgiveness and compassion

7.   Danberry hit Dalton.  One could explain such violence as socio-biology;
	 if so, one would be engaged in theoretical:
     *a.   reification                   b. reduction

8.   Symbolic interaction theory assumes that people a symbol means
     the same thing and elicits the same feeling in those who use
     them in a social relationship.  Below are three scenes: in
     which one was the MOST shared meaning between persons present?
     *a.  The play in which Neil played Puck. [everyone knew it was a play]
     b.  Neal agreeing with his father to drop from the play.
     c.  Mr. Nolan defining the Dead Poets Society as deviant. [the boys disagreed]

9.   Behavior itself has symbolic content.  Which behavior below were we to read as 
	marking rebellion and resistance to legal-rational authority:
     a.  Neal taking Chris' hand
     b.  Todd throwing his birthday present off the roof.
    *c.  Dalton answering the phone in school assembly.

10.  Durkheim spoke of mechanical and organic solidarity.  When the boys were smoking
	 pipes in the cave, they were forging:
     *a.  mechanical solidarity     b.  organic solidarity

11.  Weber spoke of class, status and power as organizing the behavior of a person even 
	against his/her own will.  In which event were these three most evident:
     a.  Neal's suicide
    *b.  Mr. Keating's departure from Welton
     c.  Danberry beating up on Dalton.

12.  Which of the events below best exemplified alienated dramaturgy:
    *a.  When Neal acted the role of the good son.
     b.  When Neal acted the role of Puck.
     c.  When Todd stood on his desk in respect for Mr. Keating.

13.  Which of the events below best exemplified emancipatory dramaturgy:
     a.  When Neal acted the role of the good son.
     b.  When Neal acted the role of Puck.  [1/2 pt for this one]
    *c.  When Todd stood on his desk in respect for Mr. Keating. 
			[more were emancipated in more signification ways than above]

14.  J. Evans Pritchard used a formula to judge the merit of poetry.  
	Which kind of rationality was Pritchard using:
     a.  Substantive Rationality     *b.  Technical Rationality

15.  Durkheim uses three categories for suicide; which kind was Neil's:
     a. Anomic	[there was a lot of social order at both school and home]
     b. altruistic  [Neil did not sacrifice himself for others
    *c. egoistic  [Neil simply could not live with the social order given him]

16.  The Sociology of it all is revealed when social control activity
	  emerges; who triggered social control by Mr. Nolan:
     *a.   Dalton         b.   Todd      c.   Cameron

17.  Who best represents the Generalized Other for Neal:
     a.  His father     b.  Mr. Keating [1/2]     c.  His schoolmates

18.  In which scene did Neal most closely embody the 'Me' in his behavior:
    *a.  When he agreed to drop out of the school play
     b.  When he forged his father's signature
     c.  When he went after the part of Puck in the play

19.  In which scene did he embody the 'I' in his behavior:
     a.  When he went to Chapel.
     b.  When he was the first to tear out the poetry page.  [No...Keating authorized it]
    *c.  When he went after the part of Puck.

20.  Which words most fully embodies the 'I' of the social self:
    *a.  Carpe Diem	b.  Religion, Honor, Discipline, Excellence  c.  O Captain, my Captain

21.  The students all stood on their desks at the end of the movie: their body talk meant:
    *a. they were showing solidarity with Keating
     b. they were engaged in pre-theoretical rebellion
     c. they were expressing a basic drive for territory.

22.  In which part of the movie did the Self Fulfilling Prophecy work the best:
	a.   In the Dead Poet's Society      
	b.   In the plans of Neal's father for him to become a doctor
	*c.   In Keating's effort to expand sense and sensibility in Todd

23.  the LOOKING GLASS PROCESS requires that one take seriously the
     responses of other's around them to their own behavior.  Which
     boy appeared to be most sensitive to the responses of others:
     a.  Danberry     b.  Pitts      c.  Meek         *d.  Todd

24.  In doing an analysis of the movie, a feminist sociologist would be sure to note that:
     a.  Mr. Keating's sensitivity      *c.  The all male faculty
		     c.  the class snobbery of Welton faculty and parents

25.  Your parents will not believe how competent you are at analyzing movies.  
	You will merely say that it is easy if one has:
     a.   the scientific method         b.   a sociological perspective    
		     c.   brains