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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 37 - 80 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator overhear Supervisor Tsukada telling the director about the Woman in the Purple Skirt on her first day?
(a) She is being stalked by someone.
(b) She used to be a short distance runner.
(c) She used to own a cafe.
(d) She used to be a famous singer.

2. What does the director say to the Woman in the Purple Skirt about the other supervisors?
(a) They are old terrible workers.
(b) They are all very efficient.
(c) They are all highly intelligent.
(d) They are all strange.

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

4. What did the Woman in the Purple Skirt eat for breakfast on her first day of work?
(a) A cream bun.
(b) Rice.
(c) Cornflakes.
(d) Nothing.

5. What does the narrator think people in the neighborhood would say if TV crews asked if they knew the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Go away.
(d) Who?

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sign to the narrator that the Woman in the Purple Skirt has a job?

2. Why did the narrator throw away the stick of gum her classmate once gave her in junior high school?

3. What does Supervisor Hamomoto tell the Woman in the Purple Skirt Supervisor Tachibana takes from work?

4. Which family member does the narrator first think the Woman in the Purple Skirt remind her of?

5. What is one sign to the narrator that the Woman in the Purple Skirt is not working in the third chapter?

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