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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rumor did the narrator hear about Arishima-san after she left school?
(a) She moved to Europe.
(b) She became a police officer.
(c) She joined a gang.
(d) She died.

2. Why is the narrator unsurprised that the Woman in the Purple Skirt struggles to get hired?
(a) She does not speak.
(b) She is not very smart.
(c) She is unkempt.
(d) She lacks ambition.

3. What did the Woman in the Purple Skirt eat for breakfast on her first day of work?
(a) A cream bun.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Rice.
(d) Cornflakes.

4. What had the director gone to school for prior to working at the hotel?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Acting.
(c) Creative writing.
(d) Biology.

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

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

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

8. 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 old terrible workers.
(c) They are all strange.
(d) They are all very efficient.

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

10. What incident at a supermarket resulted in the narrator no longer going to that market?
(a) The narrator bumped into the Woman in the Purple Skirt.
(b) The narrator was caught stealing.
(c) The narrator almost collapsed.
(d) The narrator was there when someone tried to rob the place at gunpoint.

11. What does the narrator do to help the Woman in the Purple Skirt find work?
(a) She fills out jobs applications on her behalf.
(b) She tells her employer to hire the Woman.
(c) She leaves jobs magazines on her bench with certain positions highlighted.
(d) She brings her to a job fair.

12. 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 unusual she is.
(c) How overweight she is.
(d) How thin she is.

13. Why does the narrator feel certain the Woman in the Purple Skirt must not be Arishima-san, whom she knew from school?
(a) Arishima-san moved to Europe.
(b) Arishima-san was her imaginary friend.
(c) Arishima-san passed away several years ago.
(d) Arishima-san was a troublemaker who must be in jail.

14. What does the Woman do with the children in the park after her first day of work?
(a) She plays Hide-and-seek with them.
(b) She plays cards with them.
(c) She plays tag with them.
(d) She races on bikes with them.

15. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the narrator think would help her develop a friendships with the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
(a) If they had the same job.
(b) If she introduced herself.
(c) If she friended her on social media.
(d) If they lived in the same building.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Woman share with the children at the park after her first day of work?

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

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

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

5. Why did the narrator throw away the stick of gum her classmate once gave her in junior high school?

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