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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. When Garbes played basketball in eight-grade, how many points did she score for the entire season?

2. How many of Garbes' aunts dyed their hair?

3. What did Garbes decide she would be since she could not be beautiful?

4. In 2019, how much did exercise revenue total in the U.S.?

5. What disease was Mr. Wong diagnosed with that force them to sell their house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Garbes family survive 2020?

2. What does Garbes remember about getting the pantry staples for the foods they ate when she was a child?

3. On Jeju Island in South Korea, who are the haenyeo and how do the skills of the older women enrich the culture?

4. What is the house and neighborhood like that the Garbes' live in?

5. How is Garbes' mother active in the lives of her children and grandchildren?

6. How does Garbes come from a long-line of hair dyers, and why did she quit dying her hair?

7. What do disability and aging have in common?

8. How can the emphasis on exercise be emotionally and physically damaging to the disabled, and what do the disabled have to realize?

9. What does Garbes realize about her feelings of being fat when she was a youth?

10. Why and how did Garbes opt out of traditional beauty and body standards?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Care work is seen as low-wage labor. Why is care work seen as low-wage labor? Why should caring for children have a higher priority and pay higher wages?

Essay Topic 3

Reproductive labor is the work required to care for children and household members, do household chores, and keep everyone physically and emotionally healthy. How essential is reproductive labor? If it is so essential, why is it devalued?

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