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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 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) Her perfume smells like rotten bananas.
(c) Turn herself in for stealing or they will report her.
(d) They know she is having an affair with the director.

2. What do the director and the Woman in the Purple Skirt get at the when they get off of the bus?
(a) A couple of beers.
(b) Milk tea and sweet rice.
(c) Cream buns and sandwiches.
(d) Two cans of coffee.

3. What brand new item does the Woman in the Purple Skirt look at on the bus as the narrator watches from the back?
(a) Purse.
(b) Cell phone.
(c) Notebook.
(d) Bracelet.

4. Who does the Woman in the Purple Skirt begin to call on the payphone obsessively?
(a) The director.
(b) The hotel.
(c) Supervisor Tsukada.
(d) Supervisor Gondo.

5. Why does the hotel manager call a second meeting of the month?
(a) Several staff members have been fired.
(b) He is stepping down from his position.
(c) To discuss the missing hotel amenities.
(d) Nobody has heard from the director.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some of the staff say about the Woman when discussing how quickly she does her job?

2. Why does the director refuse to get on the first bus while he and the Woman in the Purple Skirt are at the stop?

3. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt accuse someone on the bus of doing one morning when the narrator is on it with her?

4. How did the Woman in the Purple Skirt react when she and the narrator collided outside of the elevator one day at work?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Describe the scene when the Woman shares a box of chocolates with the children at the park. What do they discuss?

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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