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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. Why does Freddy get angry at Rio in Scene 1?

2. What does Daisy debate to herself after confession in Scene 4?

3. What disingenuous comment does Fassbinder make to Joey at the beginning of Scene 17?

4. Why does Ledesma rebuke Carreon in Scene 8?

5. What does Rio rail against at the end of Scene 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is revealed about life in Manila at the end of Scene 4?

2. How is Romeo killed in Scene 7?

3. How is Daisy interrogated in Scene 8?

4. How does Imelda Marcos foil Bob Stone's planned interview in Scene 10?

5. Describe the action at the beginning of Scene 17.

6. How is Joey connected to the assassination?

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

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

9. How does Perlita save Joey's life in Scene 5?

10. How does Uncle betray Joey in Scene 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The role of coupling in Dogeaters is more ambiguous than in many other narratives. Write an essay about three couplings. How do these two characters find each other? What do they have to gain from each other? To what extent is the relationship based more on deception or power than it is on love? How does the relationship end?

Part 1) Romeo and Trini.

Part 2) Fassbinder and Joey.

Part 3) Lolita and Ledesma.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about the world of Studio 54 and its ambiguous relationship to the zeitgeist of Manila. Describe the world that Perlita has created. How does it reflect a progressive attitude that is anathema to the Marcos platform? Why is the club valued by Imelda Marcos and her people? In the end, how does the club allow Perlita and Chiquiting to pass between two worlds?

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