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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 do the staff behave around the Woman when she wears her perfume?
(a) They tell her she smells amazing.
(b) They ask her what she is wearing.
(c) They tell her she is trying too hard to impress the director.
(d) They hold their noses and leave.

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

3. What does the narrator imagine doing to the Woman on the bus after the incident the day before in order for them to finally become friends?
(a) She will tell the Woman she saw what happened and offer condolences.
(b) She will tweak her nose harder and drag her off the bus so she can tell her who she is and they will be friends.
(c) She will offer to drive the Woman to work from now on.
(d) She will stand close to the Woman on the bus to protect her from another such incident.

4. What surprising gossip does the narrator overhear about the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
(a) She is trying to get the director's job.
(b) She is having an affair with a celebrity guest.
(c) She is having an affair with the director.
(d) She is being stalked by a coworker.

5. What is significant about the 13th floor of the hotel, where the Woman works after she completes her training?
(a) Celebrities stay there.
(b) They keep it vacant.
(c) People live there.
(d) The staff can rest there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who refers to what the Woman in the Purple Skirt does behind locked doors as "the very worst kind of behavior" (169)?

2. Where do the director and the first stop on their date after leaving the coffee shop?

3. Where does the girl in the park say her parents purchased the items she has at home with the hotel logo on it?

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

5. What did the narrator see the Woman purchasing in the market one day?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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