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Garbes, Angela
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Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Garbes, Angela
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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 are chilcare and domestic work?
(a) Maintenance.
(b) Preservation.
(c) Subsistence.
(d) Support.

2. How old were Garbes' parents when they immigrated to the United States?
(a) 25 and 29.
(b) 23 and 27.
(c) 24 and 28.
(d) 22 and 26.

3. In March 2020, when was Gerbes usually alone and able to work at home?
(a) 8:45 a.m.
(b) 8:30 a.m.
(c) 8 a.m.
(d) 8:15 a.m.

4. How many children did Garbes' mother raise?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the woman who has worked for Garbes' Tita Gina for nearly 50 years?

2. What ratio of Filipinos work abroad?

3. What percent of nurses in the U.S. are Filipina?

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

5. When was the organization Wages for Housework formed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Garbes believe is the basis of our economic system?

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

3. What is the Philippines greatest export?

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

5. 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?

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

7. What are Garbes' thoughts about care work?

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

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

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

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