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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What most disappoints the narrator during the meeting with the manager on Woman in the Purple Skirt's first day?
(a) The manager is accusing them of stealing.
(b) She cannot get close to her.
(c) They did not give them coffee.
(d) The meeting is too long.

2. Which family member does the narrator first think the Woman in the Purple Skirt remind her of?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her aunt.

3. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt eat on the same bench in the park?
(a) A cream bun.
(b) Noodles.
(c) Sushi.
(d) Pizza.

4. What does the narrator do to try to make extra money?
(a) She sells items online.
(b) She rents out a room in her apartment.
(c) She sells items at the local bazaar.
(d) She has yard sales.

5. What information does the narrator keep in her journal about the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
(a) Her work record.
(b) Her dates with men.
(c) Her caloric intake.
(d) Her daily exercise routine.

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

7. What does the narrator do one day when a salesman sits on the Woman in the Purple Skirt's Exclusively Reserved Seat?
(a) Offers her seat to the Woman when she arrives.
(b) Sits very close to him until he moves.
(c) Gives him a dirty look.
(d) Tells him he needs to move.

8. What does the narrator think people in the neighborhood would say if TV crews asked if they knew the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
(a) No.
(b) Go away.
(c) Who?
(d) Yes.

9. Who thwarts the narrator's efforts to introduce herself to the Woman while on her break one afternoon?
(a) Supervisor Hamomoto.
(b) The hotel manager.
(c) Supervisor Tsukada.
(d) The director.

10. How long after her job interview does the Woman land her new job?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 8 days.

11. What does the Woman share with the children at the park after her first day of work?
(a) Champagne.
(b) A cream bun.
(c) Her salary.
(d) An apple.

12. What does the director say to the Woman in the Purple Skirt about the other supervisors?
(a) They are all highly intelligent.
(b) They are all strange.
(c) They are all very efficient.
(d) They are old terrible workers.

13. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt fail to bring on her first day, which disappoints Supervisor Tsukada?
(a) A pen and notebook.
(b) Money.
(c) A water bottle.
(d) Lunch.

14. What does the director give to the Woman while she is on her break one day?
(a) A sandwich.
(b) A cream bun.
(c) A bowl of rice.
(d) A can of hot coffee.

15. What is the Woman in the Purple Skirt's name?
(a) Hino Gondo.
(b) Mayuko Hamamoto.
(c) Mei-chan Hino.
(d) Mayuko Hino.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator know The Woman in the Purple Skirt?

2. What does the narrator find under the Woman in the Purple Skirt's bench after she plays with the children at the park?

3. What is the narrator called at work?

4. What does the narrator leave at the Woman's door to help her with her job interviews?

5. What does the director condemn the staff for in the first meeting on the Woman's first day?

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