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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. Which character is the owner of Studio 54?

2. At the end of Scene 14, what does Joey offer Fassbinder?

3. What is significant about the day of Scene 12?

4. Why is Uncle berating Joey in Scene 4?

5. What Lolita Luna movie is playing in Scene 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Scene 10, what do Perlita and Chiquiting gossip about?

2. In Scene 1, what is imparted to the audience through radio clips?

3. What is peculiar about the tryst between Trini and Romeo in Scene 15?

4. Who is golfing in Scene 12?

5. How does Imelda Marcos defend herself in Scene 11?

6. Why does Rio Gonzaga return to Manila in Scene 3?

7. How does Scene 11 end on an incongruously upbeat note?

8. In Scene 9, how does Rio's story about her grandmother reflect the changing Manila?

9. How are Tito Alvarez and Lolita Luna greeted at Studio 54 in Scene 14?

10. Describe the montage of Scene 15.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The world of Dogeaters is one in which the line between life and death is not a concrete partition. Write a three part essay about characters who return to the land of the living after death. How do they appear in the play? What is the purpose of the return, and how do the other characters interact with the dead one?

Part 1) Mallat

Part 2) Lola

Part 3) Avila

Essay Topic 2

The narrative of Dogeaters is based on actual historical events that took place in Manila, but Jessica Hagedorn intermingles fiction and fact in the play. Write an essay about this intermingling. What elements of the play - characters, settings, events - are factual, and what is dramatic invention? How do the fictional elements serve the historical truth Hagedorn is trying to impart?

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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