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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 135 - 174.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the narrator surprised to find the Woman in the Purple Skirt in the shopping district after her third day of work?
(a) She has no money to spend.
(b) She had never seen her there before.
(c) It is very late.
(d) She was with a man she had never seen.

2. What does the director have the Woman in the Purple Skirt do at the start of their training on her first day?
(a) Write a schedule for the rest of her day.
(b) Clean a room as fast as she can.
(c) Write a list of items for her cart.
(d) Yell her name loudly.

3. How often does the staff have their meetings with the manager?
(a) Monthly.
(b) Daily.
(c) Bi-monthly.
(d) Weekly.

4. What do the staff discuss after the monthly meeting when they gossip about the director and the Woman's affair?
(a) They say his wife knows.
(b) They say she is paid more than the others.
(c) They say she is getting a promotion.
(d) They say they are going to quit if it does not stop.

5. What does the manager tell the staff they need to keep better tabs on during their meeting?
(a) How quickly they clean rooms.
(b) Their timecards.
(c) The complimentary items for guests.
(d) The length of lunch breaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Woman in the Purple Skirt begin to call on the payphone obsessively?

2. What do the director and the Woman discuss on the bus after their date?

3. What does the narrator find under the Woman in the Purple Skirt's bench after she plays with the children at the park?

4. What does the narrator notice on the Woman in the Purple Skirt's jacket on the bus one morning?

5. Instead of getting ramen like the narrator assumes, where do the director and the Woman in the Purple Skirt go?

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