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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 does Rio rail against at the end of Scene 1?

3. What excuse does Joey give for leaving in Scene 17?

4. In Scene 6, what has Lolita heard about Daisy Avila?

5. What does General Ledesma interrogate Daisy about in Scene 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ledesma assert dominance over Daisy at the end of Scene 8?

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

3. How is Daisy interrogated in Scene 8?

4. What state is Joey in in Scene 11?

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

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

7. How is Joey connected to the assassination?

8. How does Uncle betray Joey in Scene 4?

9. Describe the assassination of Senator Avila at the end of Act I.

10. What spectral occurrence happens in Scene 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Because the world of Dogeaters is a panorama of many characters, the intersection between high and low society is dramatized in the characters. Write an essay about three strata of Philippine society as dramatized in the play:

Part 1) Discuss the golfing party of Alacran, Ledesma, and Avila. What does this group illustrate about the ruling class in the Philippines? Are they all of a single mind? Where does their power derive from?

Part 2) Discuss the working class in the Philippines as represented by Romeo and Trini. What options are open to these individuals? What limitations do they face? Discuss how the play leaves both of these characters. What does this say about the working class in the Philippines?

Part 3) How do Perlita and Chiquiting represent a sort of intersection between the ruling and the working classes? What connection do they have between both groups? How does this make them the safest and least happy of social groups?

Essay Topic 3

The world of Manila in Dogeaters is one in which everything and everyone is for sale. In an essay, chart Rainer Fassbinder's experience in the city as an illustration of this. What does Fassbinder buy with his western dollars over the course of the play? Who does he exploit and what does he damage in the process? Discuss how someone like Fassbinder rationalizes this exploitation.

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