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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 does the narrator do one day when a salesman sits on the Woman in the Purple Skirt's Exclusively Reserved Seat?
(a) Tells him he needs to move.
(b) Gives him a dirty look.
(c) Offers her seat to the Woman when she arrives.
(d) Sits very close to him until he moves.

2. What does the Woman do with the children in the park after her first day of work?
(a) She plays Hide-and-seek with them.
(b) She races on bikes with them.
(c) She plays cards with them.
(d) She plays tag with them.

3. Who asks the Woman in the Purple Skirt to introduce herself to the staff on her first day?
(a) Supervisor Gondo.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Supervisor Tsukada.
(d) The director.

4. How does Supervisor Tsukada describe the job to the Woman in the Purple Skirt on her first day?
(a) Rather mindless.
(b) Easy Peasy.
(c) A pain in the butt.
(d) Quite difficult.

5. What do the Supervisors say when the Woman in the Purple Skirt expresses wonder whether the narrator steals from the hotel?
(a) She is the director's pet.
(b) She is too weird.
(c) She dislikes fruit.
(d) She steals more than they do.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Supervisor Tsukada give the Woman in the Purple Skirt at the end of her first day, which is meant for hotel guests?

2. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt eat on the same bench in the park?

3. What job does the narrator highlight for the Woman in the first job magazine she leaves for her?

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

5. What family event marked the last time the narrator saw her sister?

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