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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of nurse was Garbes' mother for most of her career in America?
(a) Hospice.
(b) Neonatal ICU.
(c) Pediatric.
(d) Labor and deliveery.

2. If women around the world made minimum wage for all the unpaid hours of care work they did in 2019, how much would they have earned?
(a) $5.4 trillion.
(b) $12.2 trillion.
(c) $1.5 trillion.
(d) $10.9 trillion.

3. How many times is Garbes able to catch herself before she and her toddler get into a yelling match and speak calmly?
(a) 1/2 of the time.
(b) 1/3 of the time.
(c) 20 percent of the time.
(d) 35 percent of the time.

4. When was the capital city of the Philippines decimated during the Battle of Manila?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1944.

5. What province did Garbes' grandparents live in?
(a) Capiz.
(b) Bataan.
(c) Pampanga.
(d) Samar.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had Garbes' parents known one another when they immigrated to the U.S.?

2. What ratio of Filipinos work abroad?

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

4. When Garbes tracked the hours she spent tending to her family and home, how much did the Invisible Labor Calculator indicate her annual wage should be?

5. What was Garbes' paternal grandfather's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was it like when Garbes tried to work during the pandemic quarantine?

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

3. What was it like for Garbes' parents when they emigrated from the Philippines?

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. What was being a laundress like in 1881 in Atlanta?

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

10. What is reproductive labor?

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