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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 81 - 134 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the director say is "very promising" (99) when they chat the day the Woman came in to work late?
(a) How well she can handle her alcohol.
(b) How determined she was to get to work that day.
(c) How quickly she cleans rooms.
(d) How much the other staff like her.

2. What does Supervisor Tsukada give the Woman in the Purple Skirt at the end of her first day, which is meant for hotel guests?
(a) A towel.
(b) A bottle of Champagne.
(c) A box of chocolates.
(d) An apple.

3. What does one of the girls in the park say she has at home with the hotel logo on it?
(a) Towels.
(b) Robes.
(c) Glassware.
(d) Utensils.

4. What does the Woman tell the children about the hotel the day after she completes her training?
(a) It is infested with cockroaches.
(b) It is a cheap hotel.
(c) She hates working there.
(d) Many celebrities stay there.

5. What incident at a supermarket resulted in the narrator no longer going to that market?
(a) The narrator almost collapsed.
(b) The narrator was there when someone tried to rob the place at gunpoint.
(c) The narrator was caught stealing.
(d) The narrator bumped into the Woman in the Purple Skirt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who thwarts the narrator's efforts to introduce herself to the Woman while on her break one afternoon?

2. How long has it been since the narrator last saw her sister?

3. What does the narrator see a man doing to the Woman in the Purple Skirt on the bus one morning?

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

5. What do the children ask the Woman for after she shares her box of chocolates with them?

(see the answer key)

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