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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 in Scene 12 refuses to enjoy himself?

2. In Scene 15, what does Leanor Ledesma do as she prays?

3. Whose son is Boomboom?

4. What interrupts Carreon as he tees off in Scene 12?

5. Which of the following characters is at the sex show in Scene 15?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Scene 4, how does Uncle goad Joey?

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

5. What is a dogeater?

6. What information about Daisy Avila do Nest and Barbara impart in Scene 5?

7. Why does Lieutenant Carreon skulk off in Scene 12?

8. Describe the montage of Scene 15.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

At the beginning of Dogeaters, Filipinos speak about the rumors of violence by the regime, and over the course of the play these rumors become explicit. Write an essay about the movement of the violence from implicit to explicit over the course of the narrative. What cruelty is rumored at the beginning? What is the first explicit act of violence, and how does violence spread like a virus thereafter?

Essay Topic 3

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

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