View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Garbes' Tita Ginny and Tito Albert have?

2. When did Will and Garbes buy their house?

3. What type of energy does Garbes say that her husband has?

4. Where did Garbes take a Gaga People class in 2019?

5. Where is Jeju Island located?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Garbes feel about her Dance Church family?

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

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

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

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

6. Why is it important for mothering to equip children to accept and respect their bodies?

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

8. Why did the Wongs update their house before they sold it to the Garbes and why did they move?

9. What do disability and aging have in common?

10. Why did the Garbes decide a yard was not important when they bought their house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

There are domestic workers in the U.S. and the Philippines. How is domestic work similar and dissimilar in the U.S. and the Philippines? Why does Garbes believe domestic work in the Philippines is more honest?

Essay Topic 3

In the 1500s, an explorer from Spain discovered the Philippines. How has the Philippines been colonized by first Spain and then the U.S.? How has colonialism affected the country and its people?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 807 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample