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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the girl in the park say her parents purchased the items she has at home with the hotel logo on it?
(a) A department store.
(b) The hotel.
(c) A strange woman.
(d) The local bazaar.

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 he will vomit.
(b) He thinks they are being followed.
(c) He knows the bus driver and worries he will tell his wife.
(d) He thinks his wife will see him.

3. What is significant about the 13th floor of the hotel, where the Woman works after she completes her training?
(a) Celebrities stay there.
(b) They keep it vacant.
(c) People live there.
(d) The staff can rest there.

4. What do the children at the park become obsessed with after the Woman has not visited for two weeks?
(a) Unicycles.
(b) Board games.
(c) An old man.
(d) Magic tricks.

5. What does one Supervisor say when Supervisor Tsukada mentions that Supervisor Gondo was off from work two days ago?
(a) Supervisor Gondo never takes a day off.
(b) She was sure she had seen her.
(c) She loves when Supervisor Gondo is not there.
(d) Supervisor Gondo deserves a day off once in awhile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do one day when a salesman sits on the Woman in the Purple Skirt's Exclusively Reserved Seat?

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

3. What does the director announce to the staff just as Supervisor Tsukada is telling them how drunk the Woman in the Purple Skirt got two nights earlier?

4. How long has it been since the narrator last saw her sister?

5. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt accuse someone on the bus of doing one morning when the narrator is on it with her?

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