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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. What type of nurse was Garbes' mother for most of her career in America?
(a) Neonatal ICU.
(b) Hospice.
(c) Labor and deliveery.
(d) Pediatric.

2. How many children did Garbes' grandmother have?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

3. How long had Garbes' parents known one another when they immigrated to the U.S.?
(a) Less than a year.
(b) 13 months.
(c) 15 months.
(d) About 10 months.

4. In 1881, what percent of Black women in the city of Atlanta were domestic workers?
(a) 90%.
(b) 85%.
(c) 94%.
(d) 98%.

5. In March 2020, when did Gerbes' and her daughters' days begin?
(a) 7 a.m.
(b) 6:30 a.m.
(c) 5:30 a.m.
(d) 6 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many cities make up Manila?

3. How many days a week did Ima, Garbes' grandmother, work at her wholesale market?

4. What percent of the $32 billion that overseas Filipinos send back to the Philippines is accounted for the the country's gross domestic product?

5. During Covid, how many jobs were lost by women?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Garbes believe children should be raised?

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

3. What are two ways that Garbes handles times when her toddler refuses to get dressed or wear anything other than a dress that is in the washing machine?

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

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

6. Why did Garbes' mother refuse the domestic worker her mother, Ima, had offered to send with her when she emigrated from the Philippines?

7. For the four months of the quarantine, how did Garbes' family spend their time?

8. Early during the Covid-19 quarantine, what did Garbes ask herself about how to spend her time, and what did she decide?

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

10. What was being a laundress like in 1881 in Atlanta?

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