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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. When did Tillie Olsen write about how motherhood means being interruptible?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1971.

2. How many C-sections did Garbes' mother have?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

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

4. What color chair would Garbes' mother sit in when she would tend to Garbes' ear wax?
(a) Blue.
(b) Brown.
(c) Green.
(d) Red.

5. 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) $1.5 trillion.
(b) $5.4 trillion.
(c) $10.9 trillion.
(d) $12.2 trillion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ratio of Filipinos work abroad?

2. 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?

3. What city published a planning department document where Ukeles noticed that work was divided into Development and Maintenance?

4. How many children did Garbes' mother raise?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are Garbes' thoughts about care work?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. What story does Garbes tell to show how her mother is a natural-born caretaker?

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

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