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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Garbes grow up?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Texas.

2. In how many countries around the world are Filipinx people employed as nannies, house cleaners, and elder-care workers?
(a) 100.
(b) About 150.
(c) Over 130.
(d) 90.

3. When did the New York City Council vote to include domestic workers in the city's Human Rights Law?
(a) August 2021.
(b) May 2021.
(c) June 2021.
(d) July 2021.

4. When did Tillie Olsen write about how motherhood means being interruptible?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1970.

5. How long were many of Garbes' mother's days when she was working as nurse in America?
(a) 12 hours.
(b) 8 hours.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 13 hours.

6. When did Garbes' parents meet at Manila's Philippine General Hospital?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1968.

7. What were the names of the domestic workers who raised Garbes' mother?
(a) Myra and Olga.
(b) Diwa and Eva.
(c) Inga and Nati.
(d) Adah and Cielo.

8. What are chilcare and domestic work?
(a) Subsistence.
(b) Support.
(c) Maintenance.
(d) Preservation.

9. What color chair would Garbes' mother sit in when she would tend to Garbes' ear wax?
(a) Green.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

10. Where did Garbes' mother grow up?
(a) Matabon.
(b) Mandaluyong.
(c) Paranaque.
(d) Valenzuela.

11. How many times is Garbes able to catch herself before she and her toddler get into a yelling match and speak calmly?
(a) 1/3 of the time.
(b) 35 percent of the time.
(c) 20 percent of the time.
(d) 1/2 of the time.

12. Between 1966 and 1985, how manay Filipino nurses are estimated to have migrated to the U.S.?
(a) About 20,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) At least 25,000.

13. If women around the world made minimum wage for all the unpaid hours of care work they did in 2019, how much would they have earned?
(a) $12.2 trillion.
(b) $5.4 trillion.
(c) $10.9 trillion.
(d) $1.5 trillion.

14. To what people does the poet Ocean Vuong say that love is service?
(a) Thai.
(b) Vietnamese.
(c) Korean.
(d) Chinese.

15. Where did Gerbes work during the pandemic?
(a) Kitchen.
(b) Dining room.
(c) Guest bedroom.
(d) Garage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city published a planning department document where Ukeles noticed that work was divided into Development and Maintenance?

2. What type of nurse was Garbes' mother for most of her career in America?

3. How many months did Ukeles spend meeting individual department employees in conjunction with her work Touch Sanitation Performance?

4. What was the name of the man who was married to Garbes' Tita Gina?

5. For what exhibition was Manifestor for Maintenance Art a proposal?

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