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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator do one day when a salesman sits on the Woman in the Purple Skirt's Exclusively Reserved Seat?
2. What did the Woman in the Purple Skirt eat for breakfast on her first day of work?
3. What incident at a supermarket resulted in the narrator no longer going to that market?
4. What does the director say to the Woman in the Purple Skirt about the other supervisors?
5. What does the Woman do with the children in the park after her first day of work?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator find after the Woman in the Purple Skirt leaves the park after eating the apple? What does she do with it?
2. In what way does the narrator feel she may have helped the Woman in the Purple Skirt win over the director and supervisor so quickly?
3. What does the narrator overhear Supervisor Tsukada and the director saying about the Woman during her first day on the job?
4. Who does the narrator follow at the start of the story? Where does she go each week? What does she buy? Where does she sit after?
5. How do the hotel employees feel about the Woman in the Purple Skirt when she first starts working there?
6. What surprises the narrator about the Woman in the Purple Skirt after they begin to work together?
7. What type of information does the narrator keep track of regarding the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
8. Why is the narrator not surprised when the Woman struggles to get hired?
9. How does the director thwart the narrator's chance to speak to the Woman on her second day of work? What does he say to her? What does he give her?
10. Who is Mei-chan and how does she relate to the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Imamura’s focus on the theme of obsession as presented in the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring the narrator's attempts to get close to the Woman in the Purple Skirt. What plans does she come up with and how are these plans continuously thwarted?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay discussing the hotel setting in The Woman in the Purple Skirt. In what ways does this setting impact the narrative and the themes of obsession and loneliness?
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