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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Bring her presents.
(c) Give her rides to work.
(d) Fix her hair.

2. What did the narrator do with the item the director left at the bar?
(a) She gave it to the bartender.
(b) She kept it.
(c) She put it in the lost and found at work.
(d) She mailed it to the director's home.

3. What do the director and the Woman discuss on the bus after their date?
(a) Her 6-year-old niece's birthday.
(b) His son's birthday.
(c) His anniversary with his wife.
(d) Her mother and father's anniversary.

4. Where do the director and the first stop on their date after leaving the coffee shop?
(a) The cinema.
(b) The post office.
(c) His house.
(d) The bazaar.

5. What was the Woman in the Purple Skirt carrying when she and the narrator collided outside of the elevator?
(a) A stack of towels.
(b) Boxes of chocolates.
(c) Bottles of champagne.
(d) A trash bag.

6. What does the director tell the Woman might happen if she continues to do so well at work?
(a) He can get her a job in the head office.
(b) She will take over his position.
(c) She will be co-owner of the hotel.
(d) She can get a better job at a nicer hotel.

7. 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 laugh.
(c) They ask if she is rich.
(d) They tell her that is a pathetic job.

8. 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) The director.
(c) Supervisor Gondo.
(d) Supervisor Tsukada.

9. What do the director and the Woman in the Purple Skirt get at the when they get off of the bus?
(a) Cream buns and sandwiches.
(b) Two cans of coffee.
(c) A couple of beers.
(d) Milk tea and sweet rice.

10. What does the narrator learn the Woman in the Purple Skirt had done with other staff members after her third day of work?
(a) Stolen a bunch of hotel amenities.
(b) Went to a house party.
(c) Gone out for drinks.
(d) Quit her job.

11. What does the narrator do the first time she and the Woman in the Purple Skirt have a day off in three weeks?
(a) She goes to work anyway.
(b) She leaves a box of cream buns on the Woman in the Purple Skirt's doorstep.
(c) She watches her house until the Woman leaves.
(d) She asks the Woman in the Purple Skirt to hang out with her.

12. On the Woman in the Purple Skirt's third day of work, does the narrator go to work on her day off?
(a) She wants to pick up her paycheck.
(b) She wants to introduce herself to the Woman.
(c) She wants to steal some hotel items.
(d) She forgot to clean off her cart the day before.

13. 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) Sniffing her hair.
(c) Holding her hand.
(d) Stealing her money.

14. Why does the narrator no longer see the Woman in the Purple Skirt on the bus in the mornings?
(a) The Woman takes an earlier bus to work.
(b) The Woman keeps missing the bus.
(c) The Woman bought a new car.
(d) The Woman does not take the bus to work anymore.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator notice on the Woman in the Purple Skirt's jacket on the bus one morning?

2. What do the staff discuss after the monthly meeting when they gossip about the director and the Woman's affair?

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

4. How does the Woman in the Purple Skirt appear to the narrator when she sees her in the shopping district the evening after her third day of work?

5. How do the staff treat the Woman in the Purple Skirt after finding out about her affair with the director?

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