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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who refers to what the Woman in the Purple Skirt does behind locked doors as "the very worst kind of behavior" (169)?
(a) The hotel manager.
(b) Supervisor Hamamoto.
(c) Supervisor Tsukada.
(d) The director.

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

3. How often does the staff have their meetings with the manager?
(a) Daily.
(b) Bi-monthly.
(c) Weekly.
(d) Monthly.

4. Why is the narrator surprised to find the Woman in the Purple Skirt in the shopping district after her third day of work?
(a) She was with a man she had never seen.
(b) She had never seen her there before.
(c) It is very late.
(d) She has no money to spend.

5. What does the director have the Woman in the Purple Skirt do at the start of their training on her first day?
(a) Write a list of items for her cart.
(b) Clean a room as fast as she can.
(c) Write a schedule for the rest of her day.
(d) Yell her name loudly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has the Woman in the Purple Skirt been unemployed when she finally lands a job interview?

2. Where do the director and the first stop on their date after leaving the coffee shop?

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

4. What does the narrator think would happen if people knew they passed the Woman in the Purple Skirt with a man?

5. 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?

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