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

2. What do some of the staff say about the Woman when discussing how quickly she does her job?
(a) She is not only fast but highly efficient.
(b) She must be cutting corners.
(c) She had the best training of anyone.
(d) She is the best employee yet.

3. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt receive after she completes her training?
(a) A new uniform.
(b) A basket of fruit.
(c) A pay raise.
(d) A master key.

4. Who does the Woman in the Purple Skirt meet on her day off from work?
(a) Supervisor Tsukamada.
(b) The director.
(c) Her sister.
(d) The children in the park.

5. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt tell Supervisor Tsukada she does in the hotel room when she locks the door?
(a) Drinks coffee and has cake.
(b) Calls her mother.
(c) Prank calls the director's wife.
(d) Sleeps with the director.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the staff behave around the Woman when she wears her perfume?

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

3. What surprising gossip does the narrator overhear about the Woman in the Purple Skirt?

4. How does the director respond when the Woman apologizes for any trouble she caused by being so late that day?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

6. Why does the narrator go to work on her day off on the Woman's third day of work? Why does she return home?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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