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

2. 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) 1562.
(c) 1555.
(d) 1539.

3. When was the capital city of the Philippines decimated during the Battle of Manila?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1946.

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?
(a) 10%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 5%.

5. When did Ukeles accept a position as artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1978.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Garbes' grandmother have?

2. How long were many of Garbes' mother's days when she was working as nurse in America?

3. Between 1966 and 1985, how manay Filipino nurses are estimated to have migrated to the U.S.?

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

5. Of the 20 percent of women of color in the U.S. population, what percent of childcare workers are women of color?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is reproductive labor?

5. What were balikbayan boxes?

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

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

8. What is the Philippines greatest export?

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

10. What is the Invisible Labor Calculator, and what did Garbes discover her salary would be if she was paid for the hours tending her family and home?

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