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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 director announce to the staff just as Supervisor Tsukada is telling them how drunk the Woman in the Purple Skirt got two nights earlier?
(a) The Woman has been fired.
(b) The Woman called to say she quit.
(c) The Woman called to say she will be late.
(d) The Woman was in the hospital.

2. How did the Woman in the Purple Skirt react when she and the narrator collided outside of the elevator one day at work?
(a) She told her to watch it.
(b) She did not notice.
(c) She apologized profusely.
(d) She helped her up and then ran off.

3. What do the children ask the Woman for after she shares her box of chocolates with them?
(a) Snacks from the minibar.
(b) An empty box of chocolates.
(c) A hotel uniform.
(d) Some towels with the hotel logo.

4. What are the supervisors tasked with after their monthly meeting?
(a) Ensuring all staff arrive and leave on time.
(b) Firing the narrator.
(c) Keeping checklists of hotel items and taking inventory.
(d) Firing the Woman in the Purple Skirt.

5. What does the director tell the Woman might happen if she continues to do so well at work?
(a) She can get a better job at a nicer hotel.
(b) She will be co-owner of the hotel.
(c) She will take over his position.
(d) He can get her a job in the head office.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the Woman in the Purple Skirt carrying when she and the narrator collided outside of the elevator?

3. What does the narrator do when she arrives home after going to work on her day off?

4. Why is the narrator surprised to find the Woman in the Purple Skirt in the shopping district after her third day of work?

5. What does one Supervisor say when Supervisor Tsukada mentions that Supervisor Gondo was off from work two days ago?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. What does the director discuss at the second monthly meeting the Woman attends? What does he task supervisors with and how do they feel about this?

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

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

10. 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?

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