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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 do the staff members begin to think the Woman in the Purple Skirt is doing with the hotel amenities?
(a) Selling them at the school bazaar.
(b) Donating them to a homeless shelter.
(c) Hoarding them in her apartment.
(d) Giving them as gifts to family members.

2. What does the narrator notice about the Woman in the Purple Skirt when she leaves her apartment the day they both have off from work?
(a) She had gained weight.
(b) Her teeth are whiter.
(c) She seems slimmer.
(d) Her hair is shinier.

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

4. How long has the Woman in the Purple Skirt been unemployed when she finally lands a job interview?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) A couple of days.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 3 months.

5. Who do the staff call "a straitlaced prude" (173) when the Woman in the Purple Skirt considers checking her bottle for alcohol?
(a) Supervisor Tachibana.
(b) Supervisor Hamamoto.
(c) Supervisor Tsukada.
(d) The narrator.

Short Answer 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?

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

3. Who refers to what the Woman in the Purple Skirt does behind locked doors as "the very worst kind of behavior" (169)?

4. How does the Woman in the Purple Skirt appear to the narrator when she sees her in the shopping district the evening after her third day of work?

5. What does the narrator see a man doing to the Woman in the Purple Skirt on the bus one morning?

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