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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 information does the narrator keep in her diary regarding the director and the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
(a) How much the director drinks while on a date.
(b) When he goes to her apartment and how often he stays the night.
(c) How many times they kiss on a date.
(d) How often they have the same day off.

2. 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?
(a) She refuses to speak to the narrator.
(b) She is off as well.
(c) She has been fired.
(d) She quit.

3. What do the director and the Woman discuss on the bus after their date?
(a) His anniversary with his wife.
(b) His son's birthday.
(c) Her 6-year-old niece's birthday.
(d) Her mother and father's anniversary.

4. What does Supervisor Tsukada tell her colleagues the Woman in the Purple Skirt had said about the job a few nights earlier?
(a) She never stays at a place for very long.
(b) She was ready to quit.
(c) She is going to run the hotel someday.
(d) She loved it and wanted to keep it for a long time.

5. Why does the narrator no longer see the Woman in the Purple Skirt on the bus in the mornings?
(a) The Woman bought a new car.
(b) The Woman keeps missing the bus.
(c) The Woman does not take the bus to work anymore.
(d) The Woman takes an earlier bus to work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the 13th floor of the hotel, where the Woman works after she completes her training?

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

3. What does the director say is "very promising" (99) when they chat the day the Woman came in to work late?

4. What does the narrator learn the Woman in the Purple Skirt had done with other staff members after her third day of work?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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