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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What most disappoints the narrator during the meeting with the manager on Woman in the Purple Skirt's first day?
(a) The meeting is too long.
(b) They did not give them coffee.
(c) The manager is accusing them of stealing.
(d) She cannot get close to her.

2. Who refers to what the Woman in the Purple Skirt does behind locked doors as "the very worst kind of behavior" (169)?
(a) The hotel manager.
(b) Supervisor Tsukada.
(c) Supervisor Hamamoto.
(d) The director.

3. What is the Woman in the Purple Skirt's first stop on her day off?
(a) The grocery store.
(b) The library.
(c) The post office.
(d) A coffee shop.

4. What does the director give to the Woman while she is on her break one day?
(a) A can of hot coffee.
(b) A sandwich.
(c) A cream bun.
(d) A bowl of rice.

5. What do the staff say about the agency director's homelife?
(a) He lives alone.
(b) He has a lot of wild parties.
(c) He is very poor.
(d) His wife bosses him around.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt give to the director at the bus stop when he is drunk?

2. What does the narrator do the first time she and the Woman in the Purple Skirt have a day off in three weeks?

3. What is the Woman in the Purple Skirt's name?

4. What does the director have the Woman in the Purple Skirt do at the start of their training on her first day?

5. What does the director say is "very promising" (99) when they chat the day the Woman came in to work late?

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