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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 the Woman in the Purple Skirt wear to work, which is against the rules?
(a) Red nail polish.
(b) A low cut shirt.
(c) Red lipstick.
(d) Black nylons.

2. Instead of getting ramen like the narrator assumes, where do the director and the Woman in the Purple Skirt go?
(a) Back to his house.
(b) A movie.
(c) A bar.
(d) A manga cafe.

3. What brand new item does the Woman in the Purple Skirt look at on the bus as the narrator watches from the back?
(a) Cell phone.
(b) Purse.
(c) Notebook.
(d) Bracelet.

4. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt bring to the children in the park after she completed her training at work?
(a) A box of chocolates.
(b) A set of towels.
(c) Sodas from the minibar.
(d) A basket of fruit.

5. 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 does not take the bus to work anymore.
(c) The Woman bought a new car.
(d) The Woman keeps missing the bus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator imagine doing to the Woman on the bus after the incident the day before in order for them to finally become friends?

2. Who does the Woman in the Purple Skirt begin to call on the payphone obsessively?

3. Why does the hotel manager call a second meeting of the month?

4. How do the staff behave around the Woman when she wears her perfume?

5. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt tell Supervisor Tsukada she does in the hotel room when she locks the door?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do the director and the Woman go on their date after the coffee shop? Which place do they stay the longest?

2. What does the Woman discover when she sniffs the other staff members' water bottles? Does she check the narrator's? Why or why not?

3. In what ways does the staff treat the Woman very different than the narrator has ever been treated by them?

4. How does the narrator know the Woman in the Purple Skirt met the director on her day off from work?

5. Why does the narrator go to work on her day off on the Woman's third day of work? Why does she return home?

6. What do the Woman and director do at the bus stop after the bar? What does the director learn he lost? What happened to this item?

7. What do the director and the Woman do while at the bar? Does anyone speak to them? If so, what do they say?

8. Describe the conversation between the Woman and the director when she apologizes to him for being so late to work the morning of the bus incident.

9. What happens when Supervisor Tsukada confronts the Woman in the Purple Skirt about the stolen hotel items?

10. What is unusual about the Woman in the Purple Skirt the evening the narrator sees her in the shopping district late after her third day of work?

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