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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. Whom does Imelda state killed Avila in Scene 10?

2. What is the name of the camp in which Daisy is held captive?

3. Which of the following is something that is related to have happened after the assassination in Scene 4?

4. What character is discussed in the radio report of Scene 11?

5. Who tells Rio of the assassination in Scene 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joey steal from Fassbinder in Scene 17?

2. What does Imelda Marcos say about the assassination in Scene 10?

3. Describe Daisy's Scene 9 interaction with her dead father.

4. What do the NPA guerrillas feel about Joey in Scene 11?

5. How does Rio react to news of the assassination in Scene 1?

6. What spectral occurrence happens in Scene 1?

7. How is Daisy interrogated in Scene 8?

8. How does Joey relate to Fassbinder in Scene 17?

9. What does Senator Avila tell Daisy in his soliloquy in Scene 16?

10. What is Daisy Avila doing when she is arrested in Scene 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dogeaters does not have a clearly defines single protagonists, only characters that are points of entry for audience sympathies. Three characters undergo significant arcs and could serve the role of protagonist. In an essay, discuss the arc of each. What normal existence does each character have at the beginning? How do the events of the play shatter this normalcy? Where does this character end the play? What is his or her catharsis?

Part 1) Joey Sands

Part 2) Daisy Avila

Part 3) Rio

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the influence of American culture on the Manila of Dogeaters. Discuss individual examples of appropriated American culture in the city. Which characters have taken on American personas? What do you think America represents to the people of the Philippines at this point in its history?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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