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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 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. Why does the director refuse to get on the first bus while he and the Woman in the Purple Skirt are at the stop?
(a) He thinks they are being followed.
(b) He knows the bus driver and worries he will tell his wife.
(c) He thinks he will vomit.
(d) He thinks his wife will see him.

3. Considering all the advice Supervisor Tsukada gives to the Woman, how long does the narrator feel it will take her to complete training?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 1 month.

4. 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) Yes, she did.
(b) Nobody likes her.
(c) Who is Supervisor Gondo.
(d) She does not drink.

5. What does the narrator call the bench the Woman in the Purple Skirt sits on each time she goes to the park?
(a) The Woman in the Purple Skirt's Favorite Spot.
(b) The Woman in the Purple Skirt's BFF.
(c) The Woman in the Purple Skirt's Happy Place.
(d) The Woman in the Purple Skirt's Exclusively Reserved Seat.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the Woman in the Purple Skirt's third day of work, does the narrator go to work on her day off?

2. What information does the narrator keep in her diary regarding the director and the Woman in the Purple Skirt?

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

4. How does the Woman in the Purple Skirt react when asked to introduced herself during the meeting on her first day?

5. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt tell Supervisor Tachibana she knows she steals from work?

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