Key Characters:  Matt Damon as Will Hunting;  
Robin Williams as Sean McGuire;  
Ben Affleck as Chuckie: 
Minnie Driver as Skylar;  
Stellan Skarsgard as Jerry Lambeau; 
Casey Affleck as Morgan: 
Cole Hauser as Billy.

INSTRUCTIONS:  Select the most appropriate response; use the Scantron. 1 pt.each

1.  The opening shots make it clear that part of the story is about:
	a. Class inequality	b. gender inequality	c. racist inequality

2.   A Structural-Functionalist would say that Will works as a janitor because:
	a. he was beaten as a child	b. he has an Oedipal complex
			c.  he has reached the social role in which he best fits

3.  A marxist would place Will Hunting in which social class:
	a. Lumpenproletariat	b. Proletariat		c. petite bourgeoisie

4.  There are three scenes in which Will talks to therapists. Which one looks
	at Will's social role relationships:
	a. the first one	b. the second one	c. the third one

5. When Will Hunting is arrested, he is processed through:
	a. a total institution		b. a health care institution
			c. a mass institution

6. A Freudian would say that the first psychiatrist Will meets is fixated at:
	a. the anal retentive stage,	b. the oral incorporative stage,
		c. or the genital stage of psycho-sexual development.

7. Sean McGuire tries to help Will Hunting deal with his:
	a.anger		b. his low self-esteem	 c. his potential as a mathematician

8. Which character in the drama has the most merit as a mathematician:
	a. Jerry, the professor who teaches math	b. Tome, the Professor's GTA
			c. Will Hunting

9. Which character in the drama has the highest social status:
	a. Jerry Lambeau	b. Sean McGuire		 c. Will Hunting

10. Skylar embodies role-reversal when she:
	a. Waits for Will to approach her	b. gives Will her phone number  [1/2 credit]
			c. tells dirty jokes in the bar with Will's friends

11. Chuckie's role in the drama is to:
	a. provide comic relief		b. provide solidarity
		c. task-leader for the group at work

12. Which person would not likely be funded for university in Australia:
	a. Chuckie	b. Skylar	c. Will

13. A Socio-biologist would say that Will Hunting is violent because:
	a. low social status	b. genetic programming		c. low I.Q.

14. Which perspective in sociology says that the educational system is
	designed to track working class kids like Will and his friends
	children into low-level jobs:
	a. Conflict theory	b. Structural-Functional Theory
		c. Symbolic Interactional Theory

15. Which perspective in sociology would say that the whole movie is
	concerned with role-relationships and socialization:
	a. Conflict theory	b. Structural-Functionalism
		c. Symbolic Interactional theory [1/2 credit]

16. Conflict theorists would say that the movie, as a whole,is about:
	a. Hermeneutics and Intersubjective Understanding of viewers
	b. Emancipatory Knowledge for the viewers
	c. Positive Knowledge about lower-class life

17. The History Student at the Harvard Bar tells Will that he will end up
	serving fast food to his kids.  His prediction is:
	a. part of a self-fulfilling prophecy
	b. part of the looking glass process
	c. part of the effects of class inequality

18. Which role-relationship is the most helpful to Will in the movie:
	a. Jerry Lambeau who recognizes and saves him from prison [1/2 credit]
	b. Skylar who teaches him to love and to be open [1/2 credit]
	c. Sean McGuire who helps him move beyond his Community in Southfield

19. Which Supplies did Will, Chuckie and Billy use to bond together in male solidarity:
	a. sexual jokes, street fighting and alcohol
	b. food, music and love		c. food, alcohol and drug use

20. Which character in the movie uses dramaturgy to create the sociology of fraud in job 
	interview and in the Harvard Bar to pick up women:
	a. Will		b. Chuckie	c. Billy	d. Jerry

21. Which Character provides a hermeneutic interpretation of art:
	a. the first psychiatrist	b. Sean		c. Will

22. In Freudian Theory, all the baseball scenes in the movies embodies:
	a. oral aggressive	b. anal expulsion	c. Oedipal Complex
	[and maybe latent homosexuality but see the Sociology of Sports article.]
		

23. At the end of the movie, Will:
	a. pushes Skylar, Sean and Jerry away from him [1/2]
	b. deserts Jerry, Billy and Chuckie[1/2]
	c. begins to trust his own capacity to have a healthy social life

24. At the end of the movie, Sean:
	a. ends his friendship with Jerry over Jerry's mindless pushing of Will
	b. ends his treatment of Will [1/2]
	c. begins his own quest for intimate social relationships