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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 was champorado with tuyo?

2. Since when has artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles been exploring how culture devalues maintenance work?

3. Who was the president of the U.S. when the U.S. acquired the Philippines?

4. Where was Garbes' parents' first apartment in the U.S.?

5. When did the New York City Council vote to include domestic workers in the city's Human Rights Law?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is reproductive labor?

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

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

5. How does Garbes believe children should be raised?

6. What are Garbes' thoughts about care work?

7. What was life like for Garbes before the pandemic?

8. What is the Philippines greatest export?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The pandemic affected mothering. How did the pandemic affect mothering? Why did the pandemic cause Garbes to believe that mothering needed to change?

Essay Topic 2

Books can be structured and divided in different ways. How does the structure of a book provide clarity and flow to a narrative? What are section or chapter titles? What are some purposes of chapter titles? How does Garbes use section and chapter titles in Essential Labor?

Essay Topic 3

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How are idioms used in in Essential Labor? How do idioms help create word pictures and mental images for readers in a concise manner?

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