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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 discuss after the monthly meeting when they gossip about the director and the Woman's affair?
(a) They say she is getting a promotion.
(b) They say they are going to quit if it does not stop.
(c) They say his wife knows.
(d) They say she is paid more than the others.

2. What does the Woman in the Purple Skirt bring to the children in the park after she completed her training at work?
(a) Sodas from the minibar.
(b) A set of towels.
(c) A basket of fruit.
(d) A box of chocolates.

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

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

5. What does one Supervisor say when Supervisor Tsukada mentions that Supervisor Gondo was off from work two days ago?
(a) Supervisor Gondo deserves a day off once in awhile.
(b) She was sure she had seen her.
(c) She loves when Supervisor Gondo is not there.
(d) Supervisor Gondo never takes a day off.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the narrator unable to ask Supervisor Tsukada about the Woman in the Purple Skirt on her day off after she saw her in the shopping district?

2. What does the hotel manager says will happen if someone confesses to stealing the hotel items?

3. What does the narrator do once she hears people saying that the Woman in the Purple Skirt leaves her work cart too messy?

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

5. What bothers the narrator when she overhears the conversation between the Woman and the director after the incident on the bus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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