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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 find under the Woman in the Purple Skirt's bench after she plays with the children at the park?
(a) A banana.
(b) An orange.
(c) A of chocolate.
(d) A water bottle.

2. What does the Supervisor comment to the Woman about after she changes into her uniform on her first day of work?
(a) How unusual she is.
(b) How overweight she is.
(c) How unkempt her hair is.
(d) How thin she is.

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

4. 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) Who?
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Go away.

5. Why is the narrator unsurprised that the Woman in the Purple Skirt struggles to get hired?
(a) She is unkempt.
(b) She is not very smart.
(c) She does not speak.
(d) She lacks ambition.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator do one day when a salesman sits on the Woman in the Purple Skirt's Exclusively Reserved Seat?

4. What does the Woman share with the children at the park after her first day of work?

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

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