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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. Who brings the Woman in the Purple Skirt to work after she stops taking the bus in the mornings?
(a) Supervisor Hamamoto.
(b) She takes a cab.
(c) The director.
(d) Supervisor Tsukada.

2. What do the staff say to the Woman in the Purple Skirt the day she leaves work and never returns?
(a) Supervisor Gondo is stalking her.
(b) Turn herself in for stealing or they will report her.
(c) They know she is having an affair with the director.
(d) Her perfume smells like rotten bananas.

3. What does Supervisor Tsukada say when someone asks if Supervisor Gondo joined the Woman in the Purple Skirt and other staff members a few nights earlier?
(a) She does not drink.
(b) Nobody likes her.
(c) Who is Supervisor Gondo.
(d) Yes, she did.

4. 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 asks the Woman in the Purple Skirt to hang out with her.
(d) She watches her house until the Woman leaves.

5. What is the Woman in the Purple Skirt's first stop on her day off?
(a) A coffee shop.
(b) The grocery store.
(c) The library.
(d) The post office.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think would happen if people knew they passed the Woman in the Purple Skirt with a man?

2. How late is the Woman in the Purple Skirt for work on her fourth day after the incident on the bus?

3. Where do the director and the first stop on their date after leaving the coffee shop?

4. What does one of the girls in the park say she has at home with the hotel logo on it?

5. What do the children ask the Woman for after she shares her box of chocolates with them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What rumor does the narrator overhear about the Woman in the Purple Skirt?

2. What do the staff say the morning the Woman in the Purple Skirt is late for work? What does Supervisor Tsukada tell them they had done with the Woman a couple nights before?

3. What happens on the morning bus when the narrator notices a bit of rice on the Woman in the Purple Skirt's jacket?

4. Describe the conversation between the Woman and Supervisor Tsukada about the hotel shampoo and why the Woman does not use it.

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

6. What happens when the staff learn someone is selling hotel items at the local bazaar? Who do they think is behind it?

7. How does the staff behavior toward the Woman change after they find out about her affair with the director? How does the Woman respond?

8. Why is the narrator more likely to see the Woman at the park than at work after the Woman completes her training?

9. Why is the narrator annoyed with the way the Woman explains the bus incident to the director and others? What does she imagine doing the next time she has a chance?

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

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