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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. Who does Joey first tell about witnessing the assassination?

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

3. In Scene 9, Senator Avila's ghost tells Daisy she must have what?

4. What morose, repetitive action is Fassbinder doing throughout Scene 17?

5. In Scene 16, who does Senator Avila say Daisy is like?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What state is Joey in in Scene 11?

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

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

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

6. How does Imelda describe herself at the end of Scene 10?

7. How is Daisy interrogated in Scene 8?

8. How is Romeo killed in Scene 7?

9. How is Joey connected to the assassination?

10. How does Uncle betray Joey in Scene 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Dogeaters is a sweeping narrative, and it is a play, allowing it many devices to impart information. Write an essay about the use of dramatic devices to impart information to the audience/reader:

Part 1) Discuss the framing device of the play. What is the function of Barbara and Nestor, both as individuals and as devices in the plot? How does the radio drama alter the tone of the play?

Part 2) Write an analysis of the sexual montage that occurs near the end of Act I. Which characters in the play are involved? Do any of them enjoy themselves? How does Hagedorn interweave the different sexual encounters?

Part 3) Discuss the use of monologue in the play. When characters speak directly to the audience, what do they impart? Are they covering narrative, adding emotional nuance, or both? Does the monologue affect the flow of the narrative?

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