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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. Where would Garbes family have to get the Asian pantry staples when she was a child?

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

3. How long did Garbes die her hair to cover up the gray?

4. When do haenyeo peak?

5. How long was Israeli choreographer and dancer Ohad Naharin the artistic director and choreographer of the Batsheva Dance Company?

Short Essay Questions

1. What limits are there to verbal language, and how are explanations inadequate at times?

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

3. What exercise has Garbes found that works for her, and how long has she been doing it?

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

5. What is the "big clothes closet" (102)?

6. How did Garbes and her cousins spend holidays, summer vacations, or impromptu weekends with one another?

7. How does Garbes describes the meals she enjoyed in the Philippines?

8. What do disability and aging have in common?

9. How did Garbes' father become disillusioned with managed health care?

10. How did Garbes family survive 2020?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mood is an element that evokes feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. Mood is the overall feeling that readers have when reading a book. What is the overall mood of Essential Labor?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Garbes’ mother did not support and guide Garbes in dealing with and accepting her body. Why did Garbes’ mother not support and guide her in dealing with and accepting her body? How did that lack of guidance affect Garbes? Why is it important for mothers and caregivers to help children understand their bodies?

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