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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 135 - 174.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Woman in the Purple Skirt's first stop on her day off?
(a) The post office.
(b) The library.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) A coffee shop.

2. What does Supervisor Tsukada say when someone asks if Supervisor Gondo joined the Woman in the Purple Skirt and other staff members a few nights earlier?
(a) Who is Supervisor Gondo.
(b) She does not drink.
(c) Nobody likes her.
(d) Yes, she did.

3. What do the children ask the Woman for after she shares her box of chocolates with them?
(a) An empty box of chocolates.
(b) Some towels with the hotel logo.
(c) A hotel uniform.
(d) Snacks from the minibar.

4. What did the narrator have to pay to repair after bumping into it one day?
(a) A butcher's display cabinet.
(b) A flower shop display window.
(c) A mailbox.
(d) A police car.

5. What does the director condemn the staff for in the first meeting on the Woman's first day?
(a) Not smiling enough.
(b) Not wearing their uniforms properly.
(c) Missing too much work.
(d) Missing hotel amenities.

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. Who does the Woman in the Purple Skirt begin to call on the payphone obsessively?

3. What bothers the narrator when she overhears the conversation between the Woman and the director after the incident on the bus?

4. What did the narrator once do in a vain attempt to get to know the Woman in the Purple Skirt?

5. What is significant about the 13th floor of the hotel, where the Woman works after she completes her training?

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