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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. How long does it take the Woman in the Purple Skirt to complete her training?
(a) 1 1/2 days.
(b) 3 weeks.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 5 days.

2. What do the staff discuss after the monthly meeting when they gossip about the director and the Woman's affair?
(a) They say she is getting a promotion.
(b) They say she is paid more than the others.
(c) They say his wife knows.
(d) They say they are going to quit if it does not stop.

3. What does the narrator think would happen if people knew they passed the Woman in the Purple Skirt with a man?
(a) The director's wife would find out immediately.
(b) TV crews would interview her.
(c) The Woman would be fired.
(d) The director would be fired.

4. Why does the director refuse to get on the first bus while he and the Woman in the Purple Skirt are at the stop?
(a) He thinks he will vomit.
(b) He knows the bus driver and worries he will tell his wife.
(c) He thinks his wife will see him.
(d) He thinks they are being followed.

5. Who is sure the Woman in the Purple Skirt is going to show up for work on her fourth day when she does not arrive on time?
(a) Supervisor Gondo.
(b) Supervisor Tsukada.
(c) Supervisor Hamomoto.
(d) The director.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the director realize he lost while out with Woman in the Purple Skirt?

2. What does the narrator realize she forgot when she came to work on the Woman in the Purple Skirt's third day?

3. What part of the Woman in the Purple Skirt's body does the narrator accidentally touch on the bus when it jerks?

4. How does the director respond when the Woman apologizes for any trouble she caused by being so late that day?

5. Why is the narrator unable to ask Supervisor Tsukada about the Woman in the Purple Skirt on her day off after she saw her in the shopping district?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. What leads the Woman to leave the hotel and never return?

6. 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.

7. How does the narrator come to memorize the director's home phone number?

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

9. How does the Woman find out that somebody is selling hotel amenities at the local bazaar?

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

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