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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the Woman in the Purple Skirt get a job?
(a) A school.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A cafe.
(d) A sales office.

2. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt bring to the children in the park after she completed her training at work?
(a) A box of chocolates.
(b) A basket of fruit.
(c) Sodas from the minibar.
(d) A set of towels.

3. What job does the narrator highlight for the Woman in the first job magazine she leaves for her?
(a) Office cleaner.
(b) Telephone operator.
(c) Newspaper deliverer.
(d) Parcel Sorter.

4. What does the Woman say to Supervisor Tsukada about the hotel shampoo, which offends Tsukada?
(a) It smells like poo.
(b) It has a fishy smell.
(c) It makes you hair oily.
(d) It is pathetic to steal hotel shampoo.

5. What family event marked the last time the narrator saw her sister?
(a) Her mother's death.
(b) Her brother's suicide.
(c) Her father's death.
(d) Her parent's divorce.

Short Answer Questions

1. How early does the Woman in the Purple Skirt leave for the bus on the first day of her new job?

2. What does Supervisor Tsukada tell her colleagues the Woman in the Purple Skirt had said about the job a few nights earlier?

3. Why is the narrator unable to ask Supervisor Tsukada about the Woman in the Purple Skirt on her day off after she saw her in the shopping district?

4. What rumor did the narrator hear about Arishima-san after she left school?

5. What did the staff often do for the Woman in the Purple Skirt, which they never did for the narrator?

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