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

2. What did the Woman in the Purple Skirt eat for breakfast on her first day of work?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Rice.
(c) Cornflakes.
(d) A cream bun.

3. What game do local children play in the park to see who has to tap the Woman in the Purple Skirt's shoulder?
(a) Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe.
(b) Tic-tac-toe.
(c) One potato, Two potato.
(d) Rock-paper-scissors.

4. What does the narrator call the bench the Woman in the Purple Skirt sits on each time she goes to the park?
(a) The Woman in the Purple Skirt's BFF.
(b) The Woman in the Purple Skirt's Favorite Spot.
(c) The Woman in the Purple Skirt's Happy Place.
(d) The Woman in the Purple Skirt's Exclusively Reserved Seat.

5. What does the director help the Woman in the Purple Skirt with during lunch on her first day of work?
(a) Time management.
(b) Organizing her cart.
(c) Voice training.
(d) Tracking complementary items.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Woman in the Purple Skirt react when asked to introduced herself during the meeting on her first day?

2. Where does the Woman in the Purple Skirt get a job?

3. What does the director say to the Woman in the Purple Skirt about the other supervisors?

4. Who thwarts the narrator's efforts to introduce herself to the Woman while on her break one afternoon?

5. What rumor did the narrator hear about Arishima-san after she left school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the supervisors convince the Woman to steal an apple from work one day? What do they say when she wonders if Supervisor Gondo steals?

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

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

6. Who does the narrator follow at the start of the story? Where does she go each week? What does she buy? Where does she sit after?

7. How did the narrator once try to engage with the Woman in the Purple Skirt? What was the result?

8. 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?

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

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

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