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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator see a man doing to the Woman in the Purple Skirt on the bus one morning?
(a) Kissing her cheek.
(b) Stealing her money.
(c) Holding her hand.
(d) Sniffing her hair.

3. What are the supervisors tasked with after their monthly meeting?
(a) Keeping checklists of hotel items and taking inventory.
(b) Firing the narrator.
(c) Firing the Woman in the Purple Skirt.
(d) Ensuring all staff arrive and leave on time.

4. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt give to the director at the bus stop when he is drunk?
(a) Coffee.
(b) A sandwich.
(c) A slap.
(d) A sports drink.

5. What does the narrator think would happen if people knew they passed the Woman in the Purple Skirt with a man?
(a) The Woman would be fired.
(b) The director's wife would find out immediately.
(c) The director would be fired.
(d) TV crews would interview her.

6. Who is sure the Woman in the Purple Skirt is going to show up for work on her fourth day when she does not arrive on time?
(a) Supervisor Hamomoto.
(b) Supervisor Tsukada.
(c) The director.
(d) Supervisor Gondo.

7. What is the Woman in the Purple Skirt's first stop on her day off?
(a) The grocery store.
(b) A coffee shop.
(c) The post office.
(d) The library.

8. What does the narrator notice about the Woman in the Purple Skirt when she leaves her apartment the day they both have off from work?
(a) She had gained weight.
(b) She seems slimmer.
(c) Her teeth are whiter.
(d) Her hair is shinier.

9. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt tell Supervisor Tachibana she knows she steals from work?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Champagne.
(c) Chocolates.
(d) Shampoo.

10. What does the Woman say to Supervisor Tsukada about the hotel shampoo, which offends Tsukada?
(a) It makes you hair oily.
(b) It has a fishy smell.
(c) It is pathetic to steal hotel shampoo.
(d) It smells like poo.

11. What do the staff say to the Woman in the Purple Skirt the day she leaves work and never returns?
(a) They know she is having an affair with the director.
(b) Her perfume smells like rotten bananas.
(c) Turn herself in for stealing or they will report her.
(d) Supervisor Gondo is stalking her.

12. What does the narrator realize she forgot when she came to work on the Woman in the Purple Skirt's third day?
(a) Her wallet.
(b) Her uniform.
(c) Her ID.
(d) Her master key.

13. How do the children react when the Woman in the Purple Skirt tells them she works as a hotel cleaner?
(a) They say they want the same job.
(b) They ask if she is rich.
(c) They laugh.
(d) They tell her that is a pathetic job.

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

15. What is the topic of the first monthly meeting after the narrator saw the director and the Woman on a date?
(a) The hotel is closing.
(b) The director's new replacement.
(c) More missing hotel amenities.
(d) The Woman's firing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the staff members begin to think the Woman in the Purple Skirt is doing with the hotel amenities?

2. What does the narrator notice about the Woman in the Purple Skirt the day after the director visits her?

3. What do the children ask the Woman for after she shares her box of chocolates with them?

4. Who does the Woman in the Purple Skirt meet on her day off from work?

5. What accessory does the director have that is similar, though more expensive, than the narrator's?

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