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

2. 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.

3. What is the topic of the first monthly meeting after the narrator saw the director and the Woman on a date?
(a) More missing hotel amenities.
(b) The hotel is closing.
(c) The Woman's firing.
(d) The director's new replacement.

4. What does the narrator notice about the Woman in the Purple Skirt when she leaves her apartment the day they both have off from work?
(a) She had gained weight.
(b) Her teeth are whiter.
(c) She seems slimmer.
(d) Her hair is shinier.

5. How does the Woman in the Purple Skirt appear to the narrator when she sees her in the shopping district the evening after her third day of work?
(a) She is solemnly walking with a strange man.
(b) She is unsteady and tired.
(c) She is smily and walks with confidence.
(d) She is gregarious and says hi to the narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take the Woman in the Purple Skirt to complete her training?

2. What does the narrator hear the staff saying about the Woman in the Purple Skirt after she had been working there for awhile?

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

4. How long does the director stay at the Woman's apartment after their date?

5. What does the Woman tell the children about the hotel the day after she completes her training?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. What does the narrator imagine would happen if passersby knew they had passed the Woman in the Purple Skirt and that she was with a man?

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

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

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

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