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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 can Senator Avila in succeed in doing with his daughter in Scene 16?
2. Which of the following is something that is related to have happened after the assassination in Scene 4?
3. Who does Joey first tell about witnessing the assassination?
4. What special room in Alacran's room does Scene 6 take place in?
5. At the end of Scene 8, what is in the picture that Ledesma shows Daisy?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Uncle betray Joey in Scene 4?
2. How does Joey relate to Fassbinder in Scene 17?
3. Describe Daisy's Scene 9 interaction with her dead father.
4. What is Daisy Avila doing when she is arrested in Scene 4?
5. Why is Lolita Luna worried in Scene 6?
6. What does Senator Avila tell Daisy in his soliloquy in Scene 16?
7. How is Daisy interrogated in Scene 8?
8. How is Romeo killed in Scene 7?
9. In what state is Daisy Avila in Scene 16?
10. What do the NPA guerrillas feel about Joey in Scene 11?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
The character of Imelda Marcos in Dogeaters is an amalgamation of the associations held internationally about the historic figure. Write an essay analyzing the character of Imelda Marcos. What image does Imelda want to impart to her people? What narrative does she tell about herself? Discuss how her actions belie the falsehood of her personal narrative.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay about the character of Rio and how she is a surrogate. What similarities exist between Jessica Hagedorn's biography and Rio's? How is the audience's understanding of the situation in the Philippines also similar to Rio's? In what ways does Rio ask the questions of Philippine society that we too would ask?
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