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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the narrator called at work?
(a) Supervisor Gondo.
(b) Supervisor Hamamoto.
(c) Supervisor Tsukada.
(d) Supervisor Hino.

5. What do the Supervisors say when the Woman in the Purple Skirt expresses wonder whether the narrator steals from the hotel?
(a) She steals more than they do.
(b) She is the director's pet.
(c) She dislikes fruit.
(d) She is too weird.

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

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

8. How is the Woman in the Purple Skirt's home described?
(a) A small shack.
(b) A well-maintained condo.
(c) A dilapidated apartment.
(d) A mansion.

9. What do the staff say about the agency director's homelife?
(a) His wife bosses him around.
(b) He is very poor.
(c) He has a lot of wild parties.
(d) He lives alone.

10. What is one sign to the narrator that the Woman in the Purple Skirt is not working in the third chapter?
(a) She does not leave the house.
(b) She seems healthy.
(c) She has no electricity.
(d) She stops buying cream buns.

11. 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 was her imaginary friend.
(b) Arishima-san was a troublemaker who must be in jail.
(c) Arishima-san passed away several years ago.
(d) Arishima-san moved to Europe.

12. What article of clothing does the narrator use to define herself?
(a) Yellow Cardigan.
(b) Green Dress.
(c) Red Blouse.
(d) Blue Shorts.

13. What did the narrator once do in a vain attempt to get to know the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
(a) Call her and pretend she dialed the wrong number.
(b) Deliver her mail.
(c) Bump into her.
(d) Sit near her on the bench.

14. Why did the narrator throw away the stick of gum her classmate once gave her in junior high school?
(a) She hated gum.
(b) She thought it was poisoned.
(c) She was afraid to get in trouble at school.
(d) Her parents did not allow her to chew gum.

15. What does the narrator find under the Woman in the Purple Skirt's bench after she plays with the children at the park?
(a) A water bottle.
(b) A of chocolate.
(c) An orange.
(d) A banana.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often does the staff have their meetings with the manager?

2. What wound does the narrator believe her sister may still have from the time they fought over the last bite of purin?

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

4. Who is the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt?

5. What does the narrator do to help the Woman in the Purple Skirt find work?

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