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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 do the children ask the Woman for after she shares her box of chocolates with them?
2. What does the bus driver do after the Woman in the Purple Skirt announces her accusation?
3. Why does the hotel manager call a second meeting of the month?
4. What do the staff say to the Woman in the Purple Skirt the day she leaves work and never returns?
5. How does the Woman in the Purple Skirt appear to the narrator when she sees her in the shopping district the evening after her third day of work?
Short Essay Questions
1. What rumor does the narrator overhear about the Woman in the Purple Skirt?
2. What does the director discuss at the second monthly meeting the Woman attends? What does he task supervisors with and how do they feel about this?
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 do the staff say the morning the Woman in the Purple Skirt is late for work? What does Supervisor Tsukada tell them they had done with the Woman a couple nights before?
5. How does the narrator come to memorize the director's home phone number?
6. What does the Woman discover when she sniffs the other staff members' water bottles? Does she check the narrator's? Why or why not?
7. What happens when Supervisor Tsukada confronts the Woman in the Purple Skirt about the stolen hotel items?
8. 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?
9. Describe the scene when the Woman shares a box of chocolates with the children at the park. What do they discuss?
10. Describe the conversation between the Woman and Supervisor Tsukada about the hotel shampoo and why the Woman does not use it.
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 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
Write an essay analyzing the symbolic significance the narrator's backstory has on the story. Why is this important and how does it develop the themes of the story? What would be different if the narrator had a close-knit family? Use examples from the text to support your viewpoint.
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