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

2. What does the director have the Woman in the Purple Skirt do at the start of their training on her first day?
(a) Write a list of items for her cart.
(b) Yell her name loudly.
(c) Clean a room as fast as she can.
(d) Write a schedule for the rest of her day.

3. How long has it been since the narrator last saw her sister?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 20 years.

4. What did the narrator overhear Supervisor Tsukada telling the director about the Woman in the Purple Skirt on her first day?
(a) She used to be a famous singer.
(b) She used to own a cafe.
(c) She used to be a short distance runner.
(d) She is being stalked by someone.

5. What does the narrator think people in the neighborhood would say if TV crews asked if they knew the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Go away.
(d) Who?

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one sign to the narrator that the Woman in the Purple Skirt is not working in the third chapter?

2. What game do local children play in the park to see who has to tap the Woman in the Purple Skirt's shoulder?

3. What information does the narrator keep in her journal about the Woman in the Purple Skirt?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. Who is Arishima-san? Why does the narrator ultimately decide the Woman in the Purple Skirt cannot be Arishima-san?

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

8. What does the narrator do while the director is training the Woman in the Purple Skirt during her first day of work?

9. What surprises the narrator about the Woman in the Purple Skirt after they begin to work together?

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

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