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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the ghost of Senator Avila first ask of Daisy in Scene 9?
2. What does Senator Avila say that Daisy wants to do in Scene 16?
3. How does Imelda characterize herself at the end of her Scene 10 interview?
4. Who emerges from the confessional in Scene 4?
5. What does Daisy curse in Scene 9?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Daisy interrogated in Scene 8?
2. Describe the action at the beginning of Scene 17.
3. What state is Joey in in Scene 11?
4. What is revealed about life in Manila at the end of Scene 4?
5. How does Imelda Marcos foil Bob Stone's planned interview in Scene 10?
6. How is Romeo killed in Scene 7?
7. How does Fassbinder show himself to be disingenuous in Scene 17?
8. How does Perlita save Joey's life in Scene 5?
9. How does Ledesma assert dominance over Daisy at the end of Scene 8?
10. How is Joey connected to the assassination?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The world of Manila in Dogeaters is one in which everything and everyone is for sale. In an essay, chart Rainer Fassbinder's experience in the city as an illustration of this. What does Fassbinder buy with his western dollars over the course of the play? Who does he exploit and what does he damage in the process? Discuss how someone like Fassbinder rationalizes this exploitation.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about the intersection between light entertainment and history in this play. Why does Hagedorn choose a soap opera for the frame of the story? What other light entertainment references and elements appear in the narrative? Thematically, how does this serve historical thesis of the play?
Essay Topic 3
The country of the Philippines is the primary character of Dogeaters, and it undergoes many changes as a political climate turns bloody. Write a three part essay about the transition the Philippines undergoes:
Part 1) Describe the Philippines at the beginning of the play. How do the Marcoses rule it, and what is the coal structure like? Discuss how the colonial history of the country has shaped Philippine society.
Part 2) The catalyzing event of Dogeaters is the murder of Senator Avila. Why is Avila murdered? How does the populace respond to the assassination? Discuss if and how Philippine society is changed by this upheaval.
Part 3) Discuss the state of the Philippines at the end of the play. What has changes in the sociopolitical climate, and what is the same as it was before? What cumulative effect did the coup have?
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