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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 ID.
(c) Her uniform.
(d) Her master key.

2. What does the narrator do once she hears people saying that the Woman in the Purple Skirt leaves her work cart too messy?
(a) She yells at them.
(b) She complains to the director.
(c) She tells the Woman in the Purple Skirt.
(d) She cleans her cart.

3. What did the staff often do for the Woman in the Purple Skirt, which they never did for the narrator?
(a) Offer to buy her lunch.
(b) Give her rides to work.
(c) Bring her presents.
(d) Fix her hair.

4. How long does it take the Woman in the Purple Skirt to complete her training?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 1 1/2 days.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 5 days.

5. Why is the narrator surprised to find the Woman in the Purple Skirt in the shopping district after her third day of work?
(a) She was with a man she had never seen.
(b) It is very late.
(c) She has no money to spend.
(d) She had never seen her there before.

6. Who does the Woman in the Purple Skirt begin to call on the payphone obsessively?
(a) The director.
(b) Supervisor Tsukada.
(c) Supervisor Gondo.
(d) The hotel.

7. How do the staff treat the Woman in the Purple Skirt after finding out about her affair with the director?
(a) They try to ingratiate themselves with her.
(b) They try to get her fired.
(c) They ignore her.
(d) They call her demeaning names.

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

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

10. What did the narrator see the Woman purchasing in the market one day?
(a) New tights.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Perfume.
(d) Shampoo.

11. What does the bus driver do after the Woman in the Purple Skirt announces her accusation?
(a) Ignores the Woman.
(b) Tells her to pipe down.
(c) Stops the bus at a police box.
(d) Throws the man off the bus and keeps moving.

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

13. Why does the hotel manager call a second meeting of the month?
(a) To discuss the missing hotel amenities.
(b) Nobody has heard from the director.
(c) He is stepping down from his position.
(d) Several staff members have been fired.

14. 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?
(a) Stealing her cell phone.
(b) Tweaking her nose.
(c) Touching her bottom.
(d) Stealing her wallet.

15. What do some of the staff say about the Woman when discussing how quickly she does her job?
(a) She must be cutting corners.
(b) She is the best employee yet.
(c) She is not only fast but highly efficient.
(d) She had the best training of anyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Woman tell the children about the hotel the day after she completes her training?

2. What do the director and the Woman discuss on the bus after their date?

3. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt tell Supervisor Tachibana she knows she steals from work?

4. Where do the director and the first stop on their date after leaving the coffee shop?

5. Who refers to what the Woman in the Purple Skirt does behind locked doors as "the very worst kind of behavior" (169)?

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