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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. Why does the narrator no longer see the Woman in the Purple Skirt on the bus in the mornings?
2. What part of the Woman in the Purple Skirt's body does the narrator accidentally touch on the bus when it jerks?
3. What do the staff say to the Woman in the Purple Skirt the day she leaves work and never returns?
4. What is the topic of the first monthly meeting after the narrator saw the director and the Woman on a date?
5. What do the director and the Woman discuss on the bus after their date?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the director and the Woman do while at the bar? Does anyone speak to them? If so, what do they say?
2. How does the narrator come to memorize the director's home phone number?
3. Where do the director and the Woman go on their date after the coffee shop? Which place do they stay the longest?
4. What leads the Woman to leave the hotel and never return?
5. Describe the scene when the Woman shares a box of chocolates with the children at the park. What do they discuss?
6. In what ways does the staff treat the Woman very different than the narrator has ever been treated by them?
7. Describe the conversation between the Woman and the director when she apologizes to him for being so late to work the morning of the bus incident.
8. How does the narrator know the Woman in the Purple Skirt met the director on her day off from work?
9. What does the Woman discover when she sniffs the other staff members' water bottles? Does she check the narrator's? Why or why not?
10. What happens when the staff learn someone is selling hotel items at the local bazaar? Who do they think is behind it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an analysis of the theme of invisibility in The Woman in the Purple Skirt. How is this theme expressed in the novel and why is it important?
Essay Topic 3
Away from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does she introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?
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