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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of the 20 percent of women of color in the U.S. population, what percent of childcare workers are women of color?
(a) 40%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 35%.

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

3. What province did Garbes' grandparents live in?
(a) Capiz.
(b) Samar.
(c) Bataan.
(d) Pampanga.

4. When did Spanish explorer Ruy Lopez de Villalobos claim and name islands for his king that included the island that became known as the Philippines?
(a) 1544.
(b) 1539.
(c) 1562.
(d) 1555.

5. Each year, how man Filipinos leave their homeland?
(a) 500,000.
(b) About 1.5 million.
(c) 3 million.
(d) More than 2 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did women in Iceland stage the Iceland Women's Strike?

2. When Garbes tracked the hours she spent tending to her family and home, how much did the Invisible Labor Calculator indicate her annual wage should be?

3. What does Garbes' father do for a living?

4. Where did Garbes' mother grow up?

5. To what people does the poet Ocean Vuong say that love is service?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does Garbes tell to show how her mother is a natural-born caretaker?

2. What is the Philippines greatest export?

3. What was Garbes' mother's job like as a hospice nurse?

4. What did Garbes write about mothering and what it taught children about their bodies and needs?

5. What did poet Ocean Vuong say about love for the Vietnamese?

6. What was it like for Garbes' parents when they emigrated from the Philippines?

7. Why is Garbes not entirely comfortable with household help as she observes it in the Philippines?

8. What has having children taught Garbes about love being an action verb?

9. Why were the Philippines named for the King of Spain?

10. What did Lola Lily, Garbes' maternal grandmother, do to survive?

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