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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. During Covid, how many jobs were lost by women?
2. How many C-sections did Garbes' mother have?
3. What was Garbes' paternal grandfather's occupation?
4. For what exhibition was Manifestor for Maintenance Art a proposal?
5. What city published a planning department document where Ukeles noticed that work was divided into Development and Maintenance?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are Garbes' thoughts about care work?
2. 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?
3. What does Garbes believe is the basis of our economic system?
4. What did Lola Lily, Garbes' maternal grandmother, do to survive?
5. For the four months of the quarantine, how did Garbes' family spend their time?
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. What did poet Ocean Vuong say about love for the Vietnamese?
8. 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?
9. What were balikbayan boxes?
10. What was it like when Garbes tried to work during the pandemic quarantine?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The pandemic revealed that two parents are not enough. How did the pandemic reveal that two parents are not enough? What support system is needed to help parents survive when two parents are not enough?
Essay Topic 2
The Philippines' biggest export is labor. How is migration institutionalized in the Philippines, and how does it affect laborers who emigrate?
Essay Topic 3
Garbes discusses literal and metaphoric homecomings. What does it mean to Garbes to come home? Why is a literal homecoming not possible? How and where does she hope to find a metaphoric homecoming?
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