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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 manager tell the staff they need to keep better tabs on during their meeting?
2. What is a sign to the narrator that the Woman in the Purple Skirt has a job?
3. What does the narrator find under the Woman in the Purple Skirt's bench after she plays with the children at the park?
4. What does the director give to the Woman while she is on her break one day?
5. Where does the Woman in the Purple Skirt go each week at the start of the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the narrator not surprised when the Woman struggles to get hired?
2. Where does the Woman in the Purple Skirt live? What does this place reveal about the Woman?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. Who is Arishima-san? Why does the narrator ultimately decide the Woman in the Purple Skirt cannot be Arishima-san?
6. What changes does the narrator note about the Woman when she has a job versus when she does not?
7. How do the supervisors convince the Woman to steal an apple from work one day? What do they say when she wonders if Supervisor Gondo steals?
8. How do the children at the park interact with the Woman in the Purple Skirt at the park? How does she react to them?
9. What happens at the park after the Woman sits with her apple after her first day of work?
10. Describe the training the director gives to the Woman in the Purple Skirt on her first day,
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay examining the cream bun as a symbol in The Woman in the Purple Skirt. In what scenes does a cream bun appear? What is the context? How does the cream bun develop the narrative or themes of the story?
Essay Topic 2
Write a brief essay analyzing the title, The Woman in the Purple Skirt. Explore the ways in which this title connects to the plot and themes of obsession and loneliness.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay comparing and contrasting the narrator and the Woman in the Purple Skirt. What details help develop their character and what do these details tell you about them? What is their background? How do they know each other? How do they interact? In what ways are they similar or different? Explain.
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