NAME: Quennie Torralba SECTION: Stem 11-D

1. THE EXCERPT OF THE NOVEL IMMEDIATELY LOCATES THE SETTING. LOOK UP “PIKIT COTABATO” ON
THE INTERNET. PASTE A MAP SHOWING WHERE IT IS LOCATED.

2. THE EXCERPT IMMEDIATELY PROVIDES SOME BITS OF THE TOWN’S COLONIAL HISTORY, AS THE
TOWNSFOLK KNOW IT. WHAT WERE THOSE DETAILS AND HOW DID THE PIKIT NATIVES PERCEIVE THE
FOREIGN INVADERS.

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3.THE EXCERPT ALSO PROVIDES AN IMPRESSION OF ZAMBOANGA , WHERE ALBERTO CAMFE FROM. A
COMPARISON BETWEEN PIKIT AND ZAMBOANGA. COMPARE THE TOWNS BASED ON ALBERTO’S
IMPRESSIONS.

PIKIT ZAMBOANGA
 4. HOW WERE THE MORO INHABITANTS OF PIKIT AND ITS SURROUNDING LOCALES
CHARACTERIZED IN THIS EXCERPT? WHAT DOES THIS PASSAGE SUGGEST IN RELATION TO SOME
OF ITS INHABITANTS: “NOT SO LNG AGO, THE COMMERCIAL BUS NEVERS TOPPED IN PIKIT…
INSTEAD, IT DISGORGED ITS PASSENGERS AT THE NEAREST SMALL VILLAGE, AND THEY HAD TO
WALK ABOUT TWO KILOMETERS TO THE TOWN PROPER CARRYING THEIR BAGGAE ONTHEIR
BACK”?

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5. BY WAY OF INFERENCE, WHY WAS VIOLENCE THE CONSTANT ELEMENT INT EH WAY THE MORO
RESPONDED TO “EXTERNAL” PRESENCE?

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6. IF ALLOWED TO MAKE CONJECTURESS, HOW DO YOU THINK THIS DYNAMIC HAS AFFECTED
PIKIT? SPECULATE ON THE CONDITION OF THE FOLLOWING INT EH ASPECTS OF PIKIT LIFE
CONSIDERING THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE EXCERPT.

GOVERNANCE

ECONOMY

CULTURE

ENVIRONMENT

PEACE AND ORDER

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8. WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE LIMITATIONS IN THE REPRESENTATION OF DATU MANTEL? HOW
DOES THIS CHARACTERIZATION COMPARE WITH A WIDESPREAD REPRESNTATION OF MOROS IN
PHILIPPINE SOCIETY AND POPULAR CONSCIOSUNESS?

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9. HOW DOES THE EXAMINATION OF MORO REPRESENTATION THROUGH THIS NOVEL EXCERPT
MAKE YOU THINK AGAIN ABOUT THE COLLECTIVE PERCEPTIONS OF MINDANAO AND THE
CULTURES THAT INHABIT IT? IS THIS EXAMINATION ALSO RELATABLE TO GLOBAL
MISREPRESENTATIONS OF PEOPLE OF DIFFERET CULTURES?

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10. IN 2003, PIKIT , COTABATO MADE HADLINES BECAUSE OF A SO-CALLED WAR BETWEEN MUSLIM
SEPARATISTS AND THE ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES. DO SOME RESEARCH ON THIS
EVENT AND USE THIS AS A CONTEXT FOR THE STORY IN ANSWERING THIS QUESTION: WHAT
CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THE SITUATION OF MOROS IN MINDANAO, THEN AND NOW? (ESSAY-
TYPE)

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