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FOOTNOTE TO THE YOUTH

Guide Questions:
1. What is the short story all about?

2. Who are the characters in the story?

3. Describe the setting of the story.

4. What point of view was used in the story?

5. What made Dodong feel that he was no longer a boy but already a man?

6. What character is revealed by Dodong when he was got tickled by the worm, jerked his foot, flinging the worm into air
yet never bothered to look at where it fell?

7. How did Teang find married life?

8. When Dodong asked permission to get married, his father felt sorry for him. So did Dodong when Blas asked for
permission to get married. They knew that life is hard after marriage, why then do you think that they did not prevent
their sons from experiencing those hardships that they’ve gone through?

9. Explain the line “Youth must triumph... now. Love must triumph... now. Afterwards... it will be life.”

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