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

2. What were the names of the domestic workers who raised Garbes' mother?

3. After March 2020, how long was Gerbes' family of four together 24/7 mostly inside their home?

4. How much might Filipina workers make monthly living in the Philippines?

5. Where did Gerbes' spouse set up a makeshift office during the pandemic?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Garbes' thoughts about care work?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Garbes’ relationship with nature has changed. How has Garbes’ relationship with nature changed? How has her family taught her the importance of nature?

Essay Topic 2

Opinions are beliefs or judgments. Facts rely on observation and research. Are the ideas Garbes shares in Essential Labor facts or opinion?

Essay Topic 3

The Philippines' biggest export is labor. How is migration institutionalized in the Philippines, and how does it affect laborers who emigrate?

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