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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Supervisor Hamomoto tell the Woman in the Purple Skirt Supervisor Tachibana takes from work?
(a) Coffee and tea.
(b) Candy.
(c) Leftover champagne.
(d) Towels and bed linen.

2. What is a sign to the narrator that the Woman in the Purple Skirt has a job?
(a) She moves to a nicer place.
(b) She goes out to restaurants more often.
(c) She leaves early and comes home late.
(d) She wears fancy clothing.

3. What family event marked the last time the narrator saw her sister?
(a) Her father's death.
(b) Her parent's divorce.
(c) Her mother's death.
(d) Her brother's suicide.

4. What information does the narrator keep in her journal about the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
(a) Her caloric intake.
(b) Her work record.
(c) Her daily exercise routine.
(d) Her dates with men.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had the director gone to school for prior to working at the hotel?

3. How long after her job interview does the Woman land her new job?

4. Who asks the Woman in the Purple Skirt to introduce herself to the staff on her first day?

5. Who does the narrator decide the Woman in the Purple Skirt reminds her of at the start of the second chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the Woman in the Purple Skirt live? What does this place reveal about the Woman?

2. In what ways does the Woman in the Purple Skirt remind the narrator of her sister? What is the narrator's relationship with her sister?

3. What does the narrator leave on the Woman's park bench to assist in her job hunt?

4. Who is Mei-chan and how does she relate to the Woman in the Purple Skirt?

5. What does the narrator find after the Woman in the Purple Skirt leaves the park after eating the apple? What does she do with it?

6. What does the narrator overhear Supervisor Tsukada and the director saying about the Woman during her first day on the job?

7. Describe the first monthly staff meeting that the Woman attends. What is the focus? How does she behave?

8. What happens at the park after the Woman sits with her apple after her first day of work?

9. How do the hotel employees feel about the Woman in the Purple Skirt when she first starts working there?

10. What does the narrator to do try to get shampoo samples to the Woman? Is she successful?

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